Confront vs Refute - What's the difference?
confront | refute |
To stand or meet facing, especially in competition, hostility or defiance; to come face to face with; to oppose; to challenge.
To deal with.
To something bring face to face with.
To come up against; to encounter.
To engage in confrontation.
To set a thing side by side with; to compare.
To put a thing facing to; to set in contrast to.
To prove (something) to be false or incorrect.
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To deny the truth or correctness of (something).
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As verbs the difference between confront and refute
is that confront is to stand or meet facing, especially in competition, hostility or defiance; to come face to face with; to oppose; to challenge while refute is .confront
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Verb
(en verb)- We should confront him about the missing money.
Derived terms
* confrontation * confrontational * confronter * confrontmentrefute
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Verb
(refut)Usage notes
The second meaning of (refute) (to deny the truth of) is proscribed as erroneous by some(compare Merriam Webster,1994). An alternative term with such a meaning is (repudiate), which means to reject or refuse to acknowledge, but without the implication of justification. However, this distinction does not exist in the original Latin , which can apply to both senses.