0 to show that something is less important, less good, or less true than it has been made to appear:
1 to show that something is not true:
In doing so, he debunks several prominent theories of the emotions.
The linear continuum of transitional residences : debunking the myth.
The alternative, he insists, is liberalism; after debunking the liberal interpretation, he celebrates its values.
The other debunks the old vision and exposes the limitations of its claims.
Some debunking experiment was not, in itself, grounds to get rid of anything.
After all, a main task is to debunk a certain kind of critic.
However, this view of identity has been extensively debunked in both early and recent sociolinguistic research, and especially in scholarship on language, gender, and sexuality.
Second, it eschews the quantitative research orientation of positive accounting studies, even though such studies have a certain debunking mission of their own.
