0 present participle of debunk
1 to show that something is less important, less good, or less true than it has been made to appear:
Debunking and replacing such theories may clarify legal thought by reminding us that we really know better.
The linear continuum of transitional residences : debunking the myth.
The alternative, he insists, is liberalism; after debunking the liberal interpretation, he celebrates its values.
Some debunking experiment was not, in itself, grounds to get rid of anything.
The debunking of myths does not explain the evolving meaning of the war for either its survivors or for subsequent generations.
Both the 'debunking' tradition and post-colonialism exhibit a strong tendency to envision the past in starkly dichotomous terms.
Second, it eschews the quantitative research orientation of positive accounting studies, even though such studies have a certain debunking mission of their own.
That too was a myth that needed debunking.
