0 past simple and past participle of refute --
1 to say or prove that a person, statement, opinion, etc. is wrong or false: --
It can, however, be refuted indirectly via the corollary hypothesis that dreaming is not controlled by forebrain mechanisms.
Although this finding has been abnegated as being insignificant, it cannot be refuted or overlooked.
Nonetheless, concerns about mammography-induced cancers currently have neither been validated nor refuted in studies concerning actual screening populations of premenopausal women.
To many, experimental talk of souls seemed to smack of precisely that atheism which these natural philosophers claimed to have refuted.
In this careful empirical study she has refuted some of the most negative truisms repeated about endowments.
It is just a theory, but it has not yet been 'refuted', and it certainly colors our way of thinking.
The first two predictions can only be verified or refuted over a long period of time.
The selection criterion is the requirement of an unambiguous formulation that makes clear under what conditions the hypothesis would be refuted.
