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DEBUNK
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they debunk ... he / she / it debunks
Past simple: debunked
Past participle: debunked
-ing form: debunking
Sense 1
Meaning:
Expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas
Example:
The physicist debunked the psychic's claims
Synonyms:
debunk; expose
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "debunk" is one way to...):
blackguard; guy; jest at; laugh at; make fun; poke fun; rib; ridicule; roast (subject to laughter or ridicule)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "debunk"):
uncloak; unmask (reveal the true nature of)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
debunking (the exposure of falseness or pretensions)
