0 present participle of disprove --
1 to prove that something is not true: --
The allegations have been disproved.
He is paranoid about attacks on his policies and is obsessed with disproving all counter-arguments.
It seems that events are disproving his argument.
There is, unfortunately, no means of disproving that in a short period of time.
That is rather a different matter to the adviser disproving knowledge or belief of deception.
I think that this summer is disproving that.
If the listeners have no way of disproving the story, the raconteur may be tempted to exaggerate the details or even to disguise falsehood as fact.
However, the disproving of an instance does not disprove the general concept, because a thing that is not specified by one parameter might be specified by some other one.
And the goals of both the prosecution and the defense were altered, from proving or disproving guilt to proving or disproving mental defectiveness.
