disprove Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb prove to be false
    confute.
    • The physicist disproved his colleagues' theories

WordNet

Dis*prove" transitive verb
Etymology
Pref. dis- + prove: cf. OF. desprover.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Disproved ; present participle & verbal noun Disproving
Definitions
  1. To prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; to refute.
    That false supposition I advanced in order to disprove it. Atterbury.
  2. To disallow; to disapprove of. Obs. Stirling.

Webster 1913