Confirm
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Confirm verb – To give evidence or testimony to the truth or factualness of. Usage example: several eyewitnesses who can confirm the defendant's account of what happened
Disprove is an antonym for confirm in topics: ratify, reinforce.
Nearby Words: confirmation, confirmatory, confirming, confirmative
Antonyms for Confirm
Disprove
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Disprove verb – To prove to be false. Usage example: Magellan's circumnavigation of the globe disproved any lingering notions that the earth is flat
Confirm is an antonym for disprove in topics: prove false, prove.
Nearby Word: disproving
Antonyms for Disprove
Common collocations
| ability | confirm ability | disprove ability |
| claim | confirm claim | disprove claim |
| idea | confirm idea | disprove idea |
| way | confirm way | disprove way |
| Other nouns: theory, hypothesis, speculation, statement, accusation, alibi, existence, myth, paternity, stories, rumors, myths, theories, claims. | ||
Both words in one sentence
- In Remember11, Kokoro is told by Satoru that she is time-traveling, and asks this of people to confirm or disprove it.
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