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:
And on a more practical level, who does own the past, and what does the stance of debunking continuity imply for struggles over the material remains of history?
His topic was the interaction of ions with aerodynamic flows, with the first portion of the talk devoted to debunking proposed methods for eliminating sonic boom by electrohydrodynamic techniques.
In the process, he, too, performs a thorough debunking of creationist dogma.
The main instructive value of seeking knowledge of ageing is the potential it offers for facilitating an untried and vanguard experiment in unlearning and debunking.
The analysis of declinism is thus not merely an exercise in debunking.
Any analytic deconstruction of a concept offers a species of cheap debunking if read in a crude and unreflective fashion.
This might indeed help to understand better the inner tension, in the second family of models, between its descriptive and its "debunking" (clearly "evaluative") attitude.
That too was a myth that needed debunking.
