Difference between Disprove and Confute

DISPROVE vs CONFUTE: NOUN

To confound.
To overwhelm by argument; to refute conclusively; to prove or show to be false or defective; to overcome; to silence.
To prove to be wrong or in error; refute decisively.

To prove to be false or erroneous; confute; refute: as, to disprove an assertion, an argument, or a proposition.
To prove not to be genuine, real, or just; set aside by contrary proof; invalidate: as, to disprove a person's claim to land.
To convict of the practice of error.
To disapprove; disallow.

Synonyms Confute, Refute. See refute.
To disable; put an end to; stop.
To prove (a person) to be wrong; convict of error by argument or proof.
To prove to be false, defective, or invalid; overthrow by evidence or stronger argument; refute: as, to confute arguments, reasoning, theory, or sophistry.

Overturn, Reject, Invalidate, Repudiate, Quash, Negate, Deny, Dismiss, Gainsay, Contradict, Prove, Dispel, Confute, Rebut, Refute

Againsay, Corroborate, Debunk, Disvouch, Substantiate, Controvert, Contradict, Revince, Rebut, Redargue, Refragable, Inconfutable, Refute, Refel, Disprove

Topple, Counter, Reject, Invalidate, Repudiate, Quash, Negate, Deny, Dismiss, Contradict, Prove, Dispel, Confute, Rebut, Refute

Contradicter, Againsay, Corroborate, Disvouch, Substantiate, Controvert, Contradict, Revince, Rebut, Redargue, Refragable, Inconfutable, Refute, Refel, Disprove

ICE could not prove or disprove his citizenship.
It is all right to disprove your hypothesis.
There is ample experience globally to disprove this.
And of course you cannot disprove Idealism, right?
Researchers work to nullify or disprove null hypotheses.
People have tried to disprove it ever since.
Information which may support or disprove a claim.
State must then disprove beyond a reasonable doubt.
To disprove the existence of these miracles is to disprove the existence of this Christ.
One must hypothesize, design an experiment that can potentially disprove the hypothesis, and see if indeed it does disprove the hypothesis.

But with what force and clearness does not the Apostle confute, disclaim, and prohibit the pretence, treating it as a downright contradiction in terms!
To name such figments is enough to confute them in the mind of such as have spiritual discernment.
Antagonist, and to write an Answer to, and confute what he had written.
Look East Policy but attempts to confute the thesis that all Asian states seem to be bandwagoning with China.
In A.D. 377-8, he was sent to Rome to confute Apollinaris before Pope St. Damasus.
The only doctors that will most likely confute it will be dr's of intangibility.
To confute this argument it will be well to consult the early Commentaries.
Thirty expressions from the tactile realm are listed, such as follow, decide, apprehend, infer, confute, etc.
His character was assailed by the darkest rumours which he never attempted to confute.
Albertus Magnus constructed an image perfect to talk metaphysics and confute the schools.