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单词 debunk
释义
debunk
verb[T]
informal
uk
/ˌdiːˈbʌŋk/us
/ˌdiːˈbʌŋk/
to show that something is lessimportant, less good, or lesstruethan it has been made toappear:
驳斥；揭穿，揭露…的真相
The writer'saimwas to debunk themyththat hadgrownup around theactress.作者的目的是为了揭穿围绕这位女演员的种种传闻。
Synonym
expose
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Denying & contradicting
  • abnegate
  • abnegation
  • apparently
  • backtrack
  • bubble
  • burstsomeone'sbubbleidiom
  • contradict
  • counter-argue
  • Dutchman
  • fly
  • fly in the face ofsomethingidiom
  • in the same breathidiom
  • oxymoronic
  • rebuttal
  • recantation
  • refutation
  • self-contradictory
  • speak
  • standsomethingonitsheadidiom
  • tergiversation
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(Definition ofdebunkfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

debunk| American Dictionary

debunk
verb[T]
us
/diˈbʌŋk/
to show that something is nottrue:
Everyweeksome long-heldmedicaltheoryis debunked.
(Definition ofdebunkfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdebunk

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In doing so, he debunks several prominent theories of the emotions.
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The linear continuum of transitional residences : debunking the myth.
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The alternative, he insists, is liberalism; after debunking the liberal interpretation, he celebrates its values.
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The other debunks the old vision and exposes the limitations of its claims.
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Some debunking experiment was not, in itself, grounds to get rid of anything.
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After all, a main task is todebunka certain kind of critic.
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However, this view of identity has been extensively debunked in both early and recent sociolinguistic research, and especially in scholarship on language, gender, and sexuality.
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Second, it eschews the quantitative research orientation of positive accounting studies, even though such studies have a certain debunking mission of their own.
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Any analytic deconstruction of a concept offers a species of cheap debunking if read in a crude and unreflective fashion.
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It is the first and third of these factors that can be most easily debunked.
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Instead of assigning a privileged place to indigenism, let usdebunk(or ' deconstruct ' in the parlance) it too.
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The book should not, however, be taken as an attempt todebunkthe new techniques.
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So many things have been criticized, so many beliefs debunked, that some critical thinkers believe they have entered the postmodern realm of virtuality.
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Of course, in their efforts todebunkthe reputation of the preceding generation, female critics were not alone.
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His topic was the interaction of ions with aerodynamic flows, with the first portion of the talk devoted to debunking proposed methods for eliminating sonic boom by electrohydrodynamic techniques.
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