refūtō āvī, ātus, āre re+FV-, to check, drive back, repress: nationes refutandas bello putare.

—Fig., to repel, repress, resist, restrain, oppose: vi vim oblatam: refutetur ac reiciatur ilie clamor: ad mortem si te (fors dicta refutet!) Prodiderim, may fate avert, V.

—To repel, rebut, confute, refute, disprove: videntur ea esse refutanda: te refutandum arbitrari: nostra confirmare argumentis, deinde contraria refutare: oratio re magis quam verbis refutata: tribunos oratione.