deprove

present singular third person deproves · participle present deproving · participle past deproved · past deproved

1. ambitransitiverareTo worsen.

   My brother and I played at a table tennis club where we each won the award for "Most Improved Player" in successive years. After that, whenever either of us played a bad match, we'd say we were shooting for the "Most Deproved" award.

   2003 February 12, [Joe Ramirez] <jramire@attglobal.net>, “First Date - random comments - spoilers”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet)

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   As you can see, Sacramento, the Lakers and Mavericks have improved tremendously from last season, with a quite negligible difference between the three teams. And it's now official; Da Warriors are the most deproved team in the league, with Miami falling apart rapidly.

   1995 February 18, Chua Hak Lien, “Most Improved / Most Deproved Teams..”, in rec.sport.basketball.pro (Usenet)

   Although, we all celebrate, every August of our independence and our liberation from the holds of the British and of having been great motivators of democracy for so long, what have we achieved in essence? A booming birth rate, increasing poverty, widening status gap, deproving socio-economic status for most people, reforms that have aided nobody's welfare but the politicians', burgeoning of the politicians bank balance and increased persecution of people.

   1998 May 10, Mo, quoting M.K. Ali Reza, “Democracy has failed us.”, in alt.religion.islam (Usenet)

   I wish I could say this was the best sequel in the world. It is not. In fact, it's not even as good as the original Moto Racer. Considering this is meant to IMPROVE on the original, and in fact they DEPROVED it (if that isn't a word, it should be).

   1999, Daxx, “Moto Racer 2 (c) EA / Delphins Software”, in GameOver, archived from the original on 23 Feb 1999; quoted in Brian Warming, “MOTORACER 2 ROCKS!!!! I'M NOT KIDDING,FOLKS!”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.sports (Usenet), 3 December 1998

   To be fair it was the same shambles last year with ads and tlaking^([sic]) over by Peter so Kelvin's doing nothing worse than what they did this time last year with old management. Still bad mind you. I think Kevlin wants to deprove the station or keep bad things the same.

   1999 March 10, 96163497 [Timmy Langner], “TRUK budget day news.......”, in alt.radio.uk.talk-radio (Usenet)

present singular third person deproves · participle present deproving · participle past deproved · past deproved

1. nonstandardraretransitiveTo disprove.

   Perhaps, however I feel it to be more than a simple hypothesis. A "hypothesis" is tested, and thus, while no actual "proof" exists, failure to "deprove" the original hypothesis supports it.

   1996 May 31, Mark Baerlocher, “To Mitchell Holman (deterrent)”, in alt.activism.death-penalty (Usenet)

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   You're right to an extent, unfortunately. And this is due to Christianity getting focused upon a detail of theology rather than how to deal with the real world. Deproving the Resurrection would not invalidate the teachings of Jesus the man. But Christianity is so obscessed with that one detail that everything else is secondary.

   1999 May 10, Roy Osborn, “the creator, Mythology, and what we know”, in alt.astronomy (Usenet)

   Yes, but the arguements^([sic]) which I have seen only apply to a certain set of deities, not all worshipped deities. They use specific properties of said deity to deprove it, or at least, attempt to. In order to disprove deities as a whole, one would need to prove that no higher being exists beyond humanity and have contact with some number of humans.

   2001 December 14, John Kang, “The case for Strong Atheism”, in alt.atheism (Usenet)