verb (v)

• prove to be false(verb.cognition)

  Example:
  The physicist disproved his colleagues' theories.
  

  Synonym:
  confute
  Antonym:
  demonstrate, establish, prove, shew, show
  

  source: wordnet30
• To prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; to refute.(verb)

  source: webster1913