Debunked and Proved

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Proved is an antonym for debunked.

Nearby Word: debunking

Proved adjective - Established beyond doubt.

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Debunked is an antonym for proved.

Nearby Words: prove, proving, provable

For a while, the ancient Tasmanians were believed to have even forgot how to make fire - and while that has been fairly well debunked, it has been proved that they reverted from shaped bone tools to sharpened stone ones.

Source: Lost Technology
It was very quickly debunked as a Fallout 3 hair mod (with multiplayer files from a Star Wars game), one of the "proof" screenshots of the Assassin was found to be from another (legit) mod, and further discussion proved that making the mod as it was described was impossible.

Source: Urban Legend of Zelda

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