DEBUNK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does debunk mean? 

• DEBUNK (verb)
  The verb DEBUNK has 1 sense:

1. expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas

  Familiarity information: DEBUNK used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEBUNK (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they debunk    ... he / she / it debunks   
Past simple: debunked   
Past participle: debunked   
-ing form: debunking   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

debunk; expose

Context example:

The physicist debunked the psychic's claims

Hypernyms (to "debunk" is one way to...):

blackguard; guy; jest at; laugh at; make fun; poke fun; rib; ridicule; roast (subject to laughter or ridicule)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "debunk"):

uncloak; unmask (reveal the true nature of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

debunking (the exposure of falseness or pretensions)