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To establish through evidence or reasoning that something is false.

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disprove

A single carefully checked counterexample can disprove a universal claim.
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The class could find a demonstrable error in Daniel's first draft: it placed every notice at eye level, although the photographs showed otherwise. That evidence could disprove the claim about uniform placement without settling the separate question about color.
From Testing the Claim Behind the Poster.
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