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Expose vs Confute - What's the difference?

expose | confute |

As verbs the difference between expose and confute

is that expose is (to reveal, uncover, make visible, bring to light, introduce to) To reveal, uncover, make visible, bring to light, introduce to while confute is to show (something or someone) to be false or wrong; to disprove or refute.

As a noun exposé

is publication of investigative journalism.

expose

English

Noun

(wikipedia exposé) (en noun)
  • publication of investigative journalism.

    • confute

    English

    Verb

    (confut)
  • To show (something or someone) to be false or wrong; to disprove or refute.
  • * 1593 , (Henry Peacham), The Garden of Eloquence :
    • Procatalepsis is a forme of speech by which the Orator perceiving aforehand what might be objected against him, and hurt him, doth confute it before it be spoken .
  • * 1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :
    • bad books [...] to a discreet and judicious Reader serve in many respects to discover, to confute , to forewarn, and to illustrate.