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refel

refel verb: to refute, disprove (an argument); to confute (someone).

Verb

refel (third-person singular simple present refels, present participle refelling, simple past and past participle refelled)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To refute, disprove (an argument); to confute (someone).
    • Averroes scoffs at Galen for his reasons, and brings five arguments to refel them: so doth Hercules de Saxonia […]1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 1, section...
    • How I persuaded, how I pray'd, and kneel'd,
      How he refell'd me, and how I reply'd […]c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

refel meaning in Urdu and Bengali

refel in Urdu

پیچھے دھکیلنا, رد کرنا

refel in Bengali

কাউকে যুক্তিতর্কে পরাস্ত করা

Forms of refel

third-person singular presentrefels
present participlerefelling
past participlerefelled
pastrefelled
alternative formrefell

Origin of refel

From Latin refellere, from re- + fallere (“to deceive”).

Questions about refel

What does refel mean?
Refel means to refute, disprove (an argument); to confute (someone).
What is refel in Urdu?
Refel in Urdu is پیچھے دھکیلنا, رد کرنا. See Refel meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is refel?
Refel is a verb.
What is the past tense of refel?
The past tense of refel is refelled.

Words near refel in the dictionary

  1. refeedings
  2. refeeds
  3. refeel
  4. refeeling
  5. refeels
  6. refel
  7. refell
  8. refelled
  9. refelling
  10. refels
  11. refelt

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: refel (page history and authors); refel (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); refel (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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