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.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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Is contradict a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, contradict is tagged as verb.
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