0 past simple and past participle of disprove
1 to prove that something is not true:
The allegations have been disproved.
Middendorff disproved such a view: while steppes came into being due to dryness, tundra came into existence because of the lack of warmth.
Instead, all possible models under operating conditions that are not disproved are constructed and simulated.
Indeed, the lack of an effect of context per se on on-line control would seem to be disproved by these studies.
Older fears of a negative impact on recurrence risk or cancer detection after breast reconstruction have been disproved.
It proceeds from the evidence to the hypothesis, the latter being proved or disproved by the evidence.
However, there is no clear pattern and thus the hypothesis stated was neither confirmed nor disproved by the results of this literature review.
The latter assumption is purely speculative and can neither be proved nor disproved at present.
It was argued here that the fear dysfunction accounts, as they are currently specified, have been effectively disproved.
