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unprove

unprove verb: to disprove.

Verb

unprove (third-person singular simple present unproves, present participle unproving, simple past and past participle unproved)

  1. (rare, transitive) To disprove.
    • […] null hypothesis reasoning, with the highest priority given to unproving diagnoses that might be most serious for the patient […]1989, Renée Claire Fox, The Sociology of Medicine: A Participant Observer's View, page 50
    • To unprove Hamel's point, one need look no further than Webvan, the online grocer without a single real store.2003, Kirk Cheyfitz, Thinking Inside the Box, page 15

Forms of unprove

third-person singular presentunproves
present participleunproving
past participleunproved
pastunproved

Origin of unprove

un- + prove

Questions about unprove

What does unprove mean?
Unprove means to disprove.
What part of speech is unprove?
Unprove is a verb.
What is the past tense of unprove?
The past tense of unprove is unproved.

Words near unprove in the dictionary

  1. unproudly
  2. unprovability
  3. unprovable
  4. unprovableness
  5. unprovably
  6. unprove
  7. unproveable
  8. unproved
  9. unprovedness
  10. unproven
  11. unprovenanced

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