Usually means: Assert the opposite of something.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word contradict:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. contradict: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. contradict: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. contradict: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. contradict: Collins English Dictionary
  5. contradict: Vocabulary.com
  6. Contradict, contradict: Wordnik
  7. contradict: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. contradict: Wiktionary
  9. contradict: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. contradict: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. contradict: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Contradict, contradict: Dictionary.com
  13. contradict: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Contradict: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Contradict: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. contradict: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. contradict: Rhymezone
  18. contradict: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. contradict: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. contradict: Free Dictionary
  21. contradict: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. contradict: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. contradict: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. contradict: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See contradictable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To deny the truth or validity of (a statement or statements).
verb:  To oppose (a person) by denying the truth or pertinence of a given statement.
verb:  To be contrary to (something).
verb:  (reflexive) To say things that conflict with each other.
verb:  (obsolete) To give an order contrary to (another order or wish), oppose (something).
verb:  (obsolete) To give an order contrary to one given by (another person), oppose or resist (someone).
verb:  (obsolete) To speak against; to forbid.

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