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refutest

refutest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of refute.

Meaning of refute

Verb

refute (third-person singular simple present refutes, present participle refuting, simple past and past participle refuted)

  1. (transitive) To prove (something) to be false or incorrect.
    • After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal. I observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute...1791, James Boswell, The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.
  2. (proscribed, transitive) To deny the truth or correctness of (something); to reject or disagree with an accusation.
    • A spokesperson for VARS Technology said: “We completely refute the suggestion that our market-leading ANPR system is unreliable".2025 December 20, Taro Kaneko, “Family ‘banned from more than 1,000 petrol stations’ amid fuel theft row”, in The Guardian

Origin of refutest

refute + -est

Questions about refutest

What is refutest the second-person singular simple present indicative of?
Refutest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of refute.

Words near refutest in the dictionary

  1. refute
  2. refuted
  3. refuter
  4. refuters
  5. refutes
  6. refutest
  7. refuteth
  8. refuting
  9. refuze
  10. refuzed
  11. refuzes

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