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contradict

/kɒntɹəˈdɪkt/

An illustration for contradict

verb

to disagree, to say the opposite is true

  • “When I get bored, I just contradict my wife.”Tatoeba
  • “You have twice dared to contradict me in front of the commissioner.”Tatoeba

Sentences from Tatoeba show real usage. A word can have several meanings, so a sentence may use another one.

Source: New Academic Word List (Browne, Culligan & Phillips) (CC BY-SA 4.0); Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0); Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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