confuted

English

Verb

confuted

1. simple past and past participle of confute

Adjective

confuted (comparative more confuted, superlative most confuted)

1. Disproved; refuted.
   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     Even Challenger was affected by the consideration that his enemies would never stand confuted if the confirmation of his statements should never reach those who had doubted them.

Derived terms

• unconfuted