Object

• assertion: I believe Deut 6: 4-7 refutes this assertion.

• suggestion: No absolute evidence to confirm or refute this suggestion has ever been found.

• hypothesis: Unfortunately there is no data to accept or refute these hypotheses.

• notion: The Project Eagle team refute such scary sci-fi notions.

Used with why or when

• what: I would not presume to refute what you say.

Preposition: by

• analysis: The rnam grangs min pa'i don dam is precisely unutterable and thus cannot be refuted by ultimate analysis.

• scientist: When a scientific theory is refuted by scientists, the community accepts that and tries to find another, better theory.

• argument: However such an idea is obviously refuted by the Chinese room argument.

• evidence: This argument has now been refuted by scientific evidence.

• official: Braver's findings have never been refuted by any official or scholar.

Modifying Another Word

• decisively: His letter decisively refutes every one of Mr Hitchens ' spurious points.

• categorically: He said: " I can categorically refute that.

• vigorously: However English Heritage has vigorously refuted these claims and I can now report that the application has been turned down.

• strongly: Peter Mandelson's claims have been strongly refuted by Oxfam.

Preposition: in

• way: Tired old arguments that small schools cannot cope with the curriculum are now being thoroughly refuted in ways the public understands.