0 past simple and past participle of debunk
1 to show that something is less important, less good, or less true than it has been made to appear:
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.
It is the first and third of these factors that can be most easily debunked.
So many things have been criticized, so many beliefs debunked, that some critical thinkers believe they have entered the postmodern realm of virtuality.
The argument is persuasively made, and it is to be hoped that this pair of authors reap something like the financial rewards of those whom they have so patiently debunked.
The upshot of this section is that we have once again debunked several arguments that might be construed as proving that genetic enhancement is inherently wrong.
It is high time that this idea was completely debunked.
That will not be easy, and it will require a number of myths to be debunked.
As a result, the myth that we live in a safe society and a safe country ought to be debunked.
