debunk
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
debunk (debunks, present participle debunking; 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.
- French: dévoiler, se déconsidérer, mettre en pièces, réduire à néant, jeter l'opprobre sur, se discréditer
- German: entlarven, diskreditieren, demaskieren, bloßlegen, entschleiern
- Portuguese: desacreditar
- Russian: развенчивать
- Spanish: desacreditar, ridiculizar, hacer añicos, desbaratar, hacer trizas, despedazar, destrozar, desprestigiar
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