Refuted vs Rejected - What's the difference?
refuted | rejected |
(refute)
To prove (something) to be false or incorrect.
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To deny the truth or correctness of (something).
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(reject)
To refuse to accept.
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(basketball) To block a shot, especially if it sends the ball off the court.
As verbs the difference between refuted and rejected
is that refuted is past tense of refute while rejected is past tense of reject.refuted
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(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.