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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Denying & contradicting
abnegate
abnegation
breath
burst someone's bubbleidiom
contradictorily
counter-argue
deniable
deny
disabuse
disagree
dispute
I'm a Dutchmanidiom
make (a) nonsense of somethingidiom
myth-buster
myth-busting
non-acceptance
non-recognition
recant
refute
speak for yourselfidiom

debunk | American Dictionary

debunk
verb[ T ]
us/diˈbʌŋk/
to show that something is not true:
Every week some long-held medical theory is debunked.

Examples of debunk

debunk
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.
Any analytic deconstruction of a concept offers a species of cheap debunking if read in a crude and unreflective fashion.
It is the first and third of these factors that can be most easily debunked.
Instead of assigning a privileged place to indigenism, let us debunk (or ' deconstruct ' in the parlance) it too.
The book should not, however, be taken as an attempt to debunk the new techniques.
So many things have been criticized, so many beliefs debunked, that some critical thinkers believe they have entered the postmodern realm of virtuality.
Of course, in their efforts to debunk the reputation of the preceding generation, female critics were not alone.
His topic was the interaction of ions with aerodynamic flows, with the first portion of the talk devoted to debunking proposed methods for eliminating sonic boom by electrohydrodynamic techniques.
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