| 释义 | confutecon‧fute /kənˈfjuːt/ verb [transitive] formal    VERB TABLEconfute |
 | Present | I, you, we, they | confute |  |  | he, she, it | confutes |  | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | confuted |  | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have confuted |  |  | he, she, it | has confuted |  | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had confuted |  | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will confute |  | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have confuted | 
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 | Present | I | am confuting |  |  | he, she, it | is confuting |  |  | you, we, they | are confuting |  | Past | I, he, she, it | was confuting |  |  | you, we, they | were confuting |  | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been confuting |  |  | he, she, it | has been confuting |  | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been confuting |  | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be confuting |  | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been confuting | 
► confute the argumentto prove that a person or an argument is completely wrong:► confute accusations Galileo was able to confute the argument that the Sun moved around the Earth.► confutes He held a press conference to confute accusations that he had supported the riots. The evidence, however, confutes these claims.  Galileo was able to confute the argument that the Sun moved around the Earth.  He held a press conference to confute accusations that he had supported the riots.  The evidence, however, confutes these claims.  The government announced that their critics had been confuted. |