0 past simple and past participle of contradict
1 (of people) to say the opposite of what someone else has said, or (of one fact or statement) to be so different from another fact or statement that one of them must be wrong:
As situations encoding a result cannot be contradicted by a conjoined clause (cf. section 4.4), the contradiction test was used to discover resultatives.
Indeed, it is contradicted by the essays that follow.
In effect, the privatisation programme contradicted the existing legal norms created to protect the previous statist development model.
The resulting descriptive schemes clearly contradicted one another: the one stressed radical breaks, the other demonstrated underlying continuities in the history of a nation's art.
There is therefore no guarantee whatsoever that they are not going to be contradicted in other corpora.
Finally, the operating board started to promote the use of small electric motors, even though this contradicted the original intentions of the city's electrification commission.
However, respondents' beliefs that socioeconomic background does not impact on their experience are contradicted to some extent by data gathered in the survey.
In one case, the zo-utterer is denied his right of authoritative assurance by being contradicted.
