Debunk vs Belittle - What's the difference?
debunk | belittle |
To discredit, or expose to ridicule the falsehood or the exaggerated claims of something
To knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is.
* {{quote-book, year=2006
, author=Mark Steyn
, title=America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It
, chapter=9
, isbn=0895260786
, page=201
, passage=Under the rules as understood by the New York Times'', the West is free to mock and belittle''' its Judeo-Christian inheritance, and, likewise, the Muslim world is free to mock and ' belittle the West's Judeo-Christian inheritance.}}
As verbs the difference between debunk and belittle
is that debunk is to discredit, or expose to ridicule the falsehood or the exaggerated claims of something while belittle is to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is.debunk
English
Verb
(en verb)- Sailing round the world debunked the theory that the earth was flat.
- Debunking the myth of the American West.
- That bullshit has already been debunked .
- A myth that has long been debunked .
- The explosion story was thoroughly debunked on National Public Radio in November 1999.