0 past simple and past participle of disprove
1 to prove that something is not true:
The allegations have been disproved.
It has disproved the notion that elderly patients cannot understand a philosophical concept such as existential well-being.
In the end it could neither be proved nor disproved.
This is an existence statement which can only be disproved if we fail to find a single supporting case.
This possibility can neither be proved nor disproved, as to our knowledge, no data are available for goldfish.
In so doing, they have disproved such false ideas as spontaneous generation while enhancing the correct notion of a divine purposeful creation.
However, given the absence of clear and established norms, at present this cannot be proved or disproved conclusively.
If this hypothesis was not entirely disproved, what transpired in the wake of the lifting of prohibition was inevitably more complex.
It was argued here that the fear dysfunction accounts, as they are currently specified, have been effectively disproved.
