The word 'disproves' is correct and usable in written English.
It means to show something to be false or incorrect by providing evidence or arguments against it. Example: The scientist's experiments disproved the widely-accepted theory, causing a stir in the scientific community.
This investigation, led by the DPS, not Operation Weeting, has always been about establishing whether a police officer has leaked information, and gathering any evidence that proves or disproves that.
American officials have repeatedly accused Iraq of lying, citing intelligence that disproves Mr Hussein's assertion that he has nothing to hide.Despite the American contention that it is up to the Iraqi leader to prove his innocence, much of the world now expects America to produce evidence proving his guilt.
And if there were ever any doubt, the recent fall in the markets surely disproves the notion that the risk premium might have sunk to zero.Squeezing the risk premiumThere is, admittedly, some evidence to suggest that the risk premium might have fallen a little.
At the same time, this disproves the liberal-left argument that communism was inherently unstable and bound to fall with or without Mr Reagan in the White House.
Surely this winning combination of size and heterogeneity disproves the trade-off theory?The answer, says Mr Alesina, lies partly in history: as in many countries, borders are partly a legacy from the past.
Last week, when SAP reported solid results after a wobble in the previous quarter, Mr Kagermann insisted that SAP's performance "disproves our major competitor's claim", without naming names.SAP and Oracle might appear outwardly similar, since both firms sell the software used by large companies to run their businesses, from inventory and resource planning to customer-relationship management.
Proponents of reform argue that Sweden, which has one of the lowest population densities in the EU, disproves the argument that rural countries cannot both have open markets and provide a standard service for everyone.But France, Spain, Italy and other countries worry that abolishing the "reserved area" will damage this universal-service obligation.
First, it disproves speculation about the growing political weight of Mr Medvedev.
An agnostic Jew who insists that evolution neither disproves nor affirms any particular faith, Mr Krauss recruited as co-signatories two American biologists who were also devout Catholics.
The symbolic importance was huge: it disproves the Stalinist version of history that the Baltic states were "liberated" in 1944.
That disproves they are safe.
