unprove

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verb

To disprove.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

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

present singular third person unproves · participle present unproving · participle past unproved · past unproved

  1. raretransitiveTo disprove.

    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
    1 more example

    […] 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

Origin

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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