contradict

Universal Words verb 1 to say that sth that sb else has said is wrong, and that the opposite is true: [VN] All evening her husband contradicted everything she said. * You've just contradicted yourself (= said the opposite of what you said before). [also Vspeech, VNspeech] 2 [VN] (of statements or pieces of evidence) to be so different from each other that one of them must be wrong: The two stories contradict each other. * This version of events was contradicted by eye-witness reports.