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: --
This hypothesis is clearly contradicted by the findings presented in this paper.
However, the configuration of the canal contradicted this idea.
The thing to be contradicted has to be strong, so that it lends its weight to the subversion of it.
The immutability of the work on tape, so lauded, is contradicted by the example that we have just shown.
In a context such as (18), an alternative interpretation is found, since the default interpretation is contradicted by the context.
But it is precisely (16c) that is contradicted by (15).
But this ' natural order ' is contradicted by the order of presentation in the book : first intonation, then stress.
In one case, the zo-utterer is denied his right of authoritative assurance by being contradicted.
