debunk
pronunciation
How to pronounce debunk in British English:
UK [ˌdi:ˈbʌŋk]
How to pronounce debunk in American English:
US [diˈbʌŋk]
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- Verb:
- expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas
Word Origin
- debunk (v.)
- 1923, from de- + bunk (n.2); first used by U.S. novelist William Woodward (1874-1950), the notion being "to take the bunk out of things." Related: Debunked; debunking.
Example
- 1. So let 's debunk some of the most common falsehoods .
- 2. Their method : consume huge amounts of these treatments to debunk them altogether .
- 3. People have spent a century trying to debunk the idea of g , and they have failed .
- 4. You can debunk all these myths and change the way you live and think .
- 5. We 've tried to debunk the asian consumer boom a little - in percentage gdp terms consumption has hardly changed in 20 years .