Usually means: Proof showing a claim is false.
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  2. refutation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. refutation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  7. refutation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. refutation: Wiktionary
  9. refutation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  11. Refutation, refutation: Dictionary.com
  12. Refutation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Refutation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. refutation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. refutation: Rhymezone
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  17. refutation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. refutation: Free Dictionary
  19. refutation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. refutation: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. refutation: Legal dictionary
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  1. refutation: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (refutation)

noun:  An act of refuting or disproving; the disproving of an argument, opinion, testimony, doctrine or theory by argument or countervailing proof; evidence of falseness.
noun:  (proscribed) A vocal answer to an attack on one's assertions.

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