disverify

English

Etymology

dis- +‎ verify

Verb

disverify (third-person singular simple present disverifies, present participle disverifying, simple past and past participle disverified)

1. (transitive) To determine (something) to be false.

   Synonyms: disprove, refute

   Antonym: verify

   • 2014, Everett W. Hall, What is Value?: An Essay in Philosophical Analysis:

     Again, in the case of sentences that predicate 'true' of some sentence, we never attempt to verify or disverify them by observing the sentence they are about to see whether it has the property of being true.

Related terms

• disverification