| A second, more common way of settling the problem was to consider the market as a kind of extension of the home, however much this might confute economic and physical fact. |
| We can confute him, not only by pointing to the books he did not use, but by pointing to those he did. |
| No, I intend to confute their arguments, to show that they are mistaken. |
| He took out a packet of old letters and began turning them over as if in search of one that would confute Terence's suspicions. |
| The whole of Pakistani history serves to confute these beliefs. |
| Moreover, experience tends to confute the system of Dr. Gall. |
