abjure, call into question, contrapose, crush, disconfirm, floor, not accept, put to silence, renounce, squash, traverse
Last update: November 3, 2015
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The dominant theory at the time when Job was written was that all suffering was a punishment of sin; and the aim of the book is to controvert this theory. [verb]
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This alone would be sufficient to controvert the baseless assumption that there existed in southern Rhodesia a ruling caste of different racial origin from the general Bantu population. [verb]
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"That is to say," said Burley, "that thou wilt join thy grey hairs to his green youth to controvert me in this matter." [verb]
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Why, if you was to tell me that two and two make five I couldn't controvert you, from my own knowledge. [verb]
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Nobody controverted the prophetic gentleman's opinion. [verb]
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I have a witness to the fact, whose testimony even you, sir, will scarcely controvert. [verb]
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] No architects have ever attempted seriously to controvert this proposition. [Please select]
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These facts were too specific and too convincing to be controverted. [Please select]
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