refutation   (Sound)

The noun refutation has 3 senses

• refutation, defense, defence -- (the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions; "his refutation of the charges was short and persuasive"; "in defense he said the other man started it")


• disproof, falsification, refutation -- (any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of something)


• falsification, falsifying, disproof, refutation, refutal -- (the act of determining that something is false)