Debunk

Definition: Debunk

Debunk

Verb

1. Expose while ridiculing; esp. of pretentious or false claims and ideas; "The physicist debunked the psychic's claims".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "debunk" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1985. (references)

Synonym: Debunk

Minorities

Japan

The League also replaced the term Burakumin (hamlet people) with Buraku Jumin (hamlet residents), to try to debunk the false concept that the Burakumin are a different race from other Japanese. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Albanian

diskreditoj (badmouth, defame, disconsider, discredit, disparage), demaskoj (belie, disclose, disrobe, reveal, uncloak, unmask). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فضح الذيف, ‏سخر (befool, chip, deride, fleer, guy, jape, jeer, kid, lampoon, laugh at, make a game of, make fun of, mimic, mock, monkey, override, persiflage, pillory, poke fun, pooh pooh, quip, quiz, rally, rib, ridicule, satirize, scoff, send up, smile, snap, sneer, snigger, taunt, tee-hee, twit). (various references)

Bulgarian 

развенчавам (dethrone), лишавам от престиж. (various references)

Chinese 

暴露 (debunking, Exposed, Exposing). (various references)

Czech

odhalit podstatu èeho. (various references)

Farsi 

کم ارزش کردن (Abase, Belittle), کسی رااگاه وهدایت کردن , احساسات غلطوپوچ راازکسی دورکردن . (various references)

French

discréditer (denigrate), dégonfler (deflate), tourner en ridicule (deride). (various references)

German

entlarven (expose, to debunk, uncover, unmask). (various references)

Greek 

ξεμασκαρεύω, απομυθοποιώ (demystify). (various references)

Hebrew 

לחשוף (denude, detect, expose, uncover, unearth, unveil). (various references)

Hungarian

nimbuszt megsemmisít (to debunk), leleplez (detect, identify, inaugurate, to debunk, to denounce, to detect, to disclose, to expose, to identify, to lay bare, to show up, to uncloak, to uncover, to unfold, to unmask, to unveil, unmask, unveil). (various references)

Italian

smascherare (expose, show up, unmask), ridimensionare (reappraise, reconsider, reduce). (various references)

Manx

roostey (bare, deprive, exposure, hull, peel, peeling, rifle, rind, rob, strip, strip of a girl, stripping, unbark), jannoo beg jeh (belittle, condemn, depreciate, depreciation, discount, disparage, disparagement, flout). (various references)

Pig Latin

ebunkday.(various references)

Portuguese

desmerecer (belittle), desacreditar (attaint, decry, discredit, disgrace, impeach, reproach, vilify). (various references)

Romanian

dezvãlui (appear, bare, disclose, divulge, evolve, lay bare, reveal, show, show up, uncover, unfold, unveil), demitiza, demasca (catch out, demonstrate, denounce, exhibit, expose, lay open, show up, throw off the mask, unmask). (various references)

Russian 

развенчивать (dethrone, discrown, uncrown), лишать престижа. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

oduzeti ugled. (various references)

Spanish

desprestigiar (discredit, smear), desmitificar, desenmascarar (expose, show up, unmask), desbaratar (mock, scuttle, smash, thwart, wreck). (various references)

Swedish

avslöja (betray, come clean, disclose, discover, divulge, expose, lay bare, let on, let out, nail, open, relieve, reveal, spill out, tattle, unclose, uncover, unfold, unmask, unveil). (various references)

Turkish

putları kırmak, maskesini düşürmek, kirli çamaşırlarını açığa çıkarmak, gerçeği göstermek, açığa çıkarmak (bring into the open, dismissal, display, drag up, expose, extricate, lay bare, smell out, tell, unclothe). (various references)

Ukrainian

розвінчувати (discrown), викривати (accuse, belie, denounce, inculpate, show up, unclose, unfrock, unmask). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "debunk": debunked, debunker, debunkers, debunking, debunks. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Debunk" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: deban, de'benci, debone, debulk, debune, Debunne, Debusk, defunk, degun, dejunk, Delbruck, deun, dubunni, ebunk. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: bunked.

-1 letter: nuked.

-2 letters: bedu, bend, bund, bunk, duke, dune, dunk, kune, neuk, nude, nuke, unbe, unde.

-3 letters: bed, ben, bud, bun, deb, den, dub, due, dun, end, ken, kue, neb, nub, uke.

-4 letters: be, de, ed, en, ne, nu, un.

+1 letter: bunkoed, debunks, unbaked.

+2 letters: baudekin, bunkered, buskined, debunked, debunker, sunbaked, unbacked, unbraked.

+3 letters: baudekins, debunkers, debunking, deskbound, unblocked, unbuckled.

+4 letters: bankrupted, bullnecked.

+5 letters: buckskinned, doublethink, hunchbacked, strikebound, unbracketed, undrinkable.