26 December 2014

confute

[kuh n-fyoot]

verb (used with object), confuted, confuting.
1. to prove to be false, invalid, or defective; disprove:
to confute an argument.
2. to prove (a person) to be wrong by argument or proof:
to confute one’s opponent.
3. Obsolete. to bring to naught; confound.

Origin
Latin
1520-1530; < Latin confūtāre to abash, silence, refute, equivalent to con- con- + -fūtāre; cf. refute

Related forms
confutable, adjective
confuter, noun
unconfutable, adjective
unconfuted, adjective
unconfuting, adjective

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Democracy is indispensable to socialism.

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On this day

26 December 1991 – formal dissolution of the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) when the Supreme Soviet dissolved itself following the Alma-Ata Protocol of 21 December 1991 and the resignation of President Gorbachev on 25 December 1991.

26 December 2004 – the Boxing Day tsunami originates in Indonesia and spreads across the Indian Ocean killing 230,000 people in 14 countries. It was triggered by a massive earthquake which registered a magnitude of between 9.1 and 9.3 and caused the entire planet to vibrate by up to 1cm and caused earthquakes as far away as Alaska.