The phrase "refute to" is not correct for written English.
The correct phrase to use is "refute" or "refute* something*. For example, "The senator refuted the accusation that he embezzled funds."
Similarly, allowing "refute" to mean "deny" obscures the distinction between proving and asserting that a claim is false.
With this seemingly heartfelt apology, the self-styled King of Dancehall joins a growing number of prominent musicians – notably in the often swaggeringly macho and homophobic rap world (a generalization, perhaps, but a hard one to refute) – to come out in support of gay rights.
This suggests us that tools to avoid fragmentation must be more robust and, probably, mandatory or strongly convincing, working onto three parallel sides (for small-medium municipalities): encouraging the groupings with special subsidies, stopping or dropping ordinary subsidies to municipalities that can merge but refute to do it and discouraging new fragmentations applying new taxes, if happens.
To rebut is to contest or deny something; to refute is to prove that it's wrong.
Read them not to refute, but to understand.
Refute means to prove to be false and does not mean to allege to be false, to try to refute.
Has Socrates refuted to his own satisfaction the position he takes in the Protagoras?
Galbraith's arguments were refuted to the satisfaction of most historians by Dorothy Whitelock in Genuine Asser, in 1967.
The effort to refute cues lead to a reduction in physician's confidence and a rise in uncertainty levels.
"Refute" means to successfully disprove — not a judgment we would make here.
"Refute" means to successfully disprove, which goes beyond what we meant here.
