debunk

English

WOTD – 15 April 2010

de- +‎ bunk (from bunkum, from Buncombe County) 1923

debunk (third-person singular simple present debunks, present participle debunking, simple past and past participle debunked)

(transitive) To discredit, or expose to ridicule the falsehood or the exaggerated claims of something.
The explosion story was thoroughly debunked on National Public Radio in November 1999.

debunk a theory

to discredit or expose the falsehood of something

Arabic: فَنَّدَ‎ (fannada)
Armenian: մերկացնել (hy) (merkacʿnel)
Bulgarian: развенчавам (bg) (razvenčavam), изобличавам измама (izobličavam izmama)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 揭穿 (zh) (jiēchuān)
Czech: vyvrátit (cs) pf, odhalit podstatu pf, znevěrohodnit pf, zdiskreditovat pf, rozkrýt pf
Danish: afsløre, skyde ned
Dutch: doorprikken (nl), ontmaskeren (nl)
Finnish: romuttaa (fi), kumota (fi), paljastaa (fi)
French: dévoiler (fr), se déconsidérer, mettre en pièces (fr), réduire à néant (fr), jeter l'opprobre sur, se discréditer
Galician: desacreditar
German: entlarven (de), diskreditieren (de), demaskieren (de), bloßlegen (de), entschleiern (de)
Hungarian: szertefoszlat, eloszlat (hu), lerombol (hu), megsemmisít (hu), leleplez (hu)
Italian: screditare (it), ridicolizzare
Korean: 폭로하다 (ko) (pongnohada), 밝히다 (ko) (balkida)
Macedonian: разоткрива (razotkriva), разобличува (razobličuva)
Maori: whakanano
Norwegian:
Bokmål: diskreditere
Polish: obalić (pl)
Portuguese: desacreditar (pt)
Russian: развенчивать (ru) (razvenčivatʹ), разоблачать (ru) (razoblačatʹ)
Spanish: desacreditar (es), ridiculizar (es), hacer añicos, desbaratar (es), hacer trizas (es), despedazar (es), destrozar (es), desprestigiar (es)

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