prove false
Frequency: 6.55.3 per million words
To be shown to be untrue through evidence or investigation.
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Examples (10)
- The initial diagnosis would later prove false after further testing.
- Her accusations against him proved false when the evidence emerged.
- The company's claims about their product's effectiveness proved false.
- Time will prove these predictions false or accurate.
- The witness testimony proved false under cross-examination.
- Scientific research has proven this theory false.
- The rumor about the merger proved false by the end of the week.
- His alibi might prove false if we investigate further.
- The initial reports proved false when journalists fact-checked them.
- These assumptions will likely prove false in the real world.