verb
- past tense and past participle of disconfirm; to prove that something is false or incorrect
Usage: formal; academic
Examples
- The new evidence disconfirmed the original hypothesis.
- Her theory was disconfirmed by the experimental results.
- The study disconfirmed several widely held beliefs about memory.
- Scientists disconfirmed the claim through careful observation.
- The data disconfirmed what researchers had previously assumed.
- Multiple experiments have disconfirmed this popular notion.