give the lie to
Verb
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Verb
give the lie to
- (idiomatic, transitive) To reveal or prove (something) to be false; to refute.
- They found plenty of emails that gave the lie to his assertion that he didn't know about the incident.
- give lie to
- put the lie to, put lie to, put to lie
- belie, contradict
- Spanish: desmentir
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