debunk
Etymology
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Etymology
From de- + bunk (from bunkum, from Buncombe County) 1923.
Pronunciation Verbdebunk (debunks, present participle debunking; simple past and past participle debunked)
- (transitive) To discredit, or expose to ridicule the falsehood or the exaggerated claims of something.
- The explosion story was thoroughly debunked on National Public Radio in November 1999.
- debunk a theory
- French: dévoiler, se déconsidérer, mettre en pièces, réduire à néant, jeter l'opprobre sur, se discréditer
- German: entlarven, diskreditieren, demaskieren, bloßlegen, entschleiern
- Italian: screditare, ridicolizzare, sbugiardare, demistificare, sbufalare
- Portuguese: desacreditar
- Russian: развенчивать
- Spanish: desacreditar, ridiculizar, hacer añicos, desbaratar, hacer trizas, despedazar, destrozar, desprestigiar, desmentir
debunk (plural debunks)
- (informal) A debunking; the act by which something is debunked.
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