📚 Debunk, verb. 🔉 /diːˈbʌŋk/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Expose the falseness or hollowness of (an idea or belief) ❗️ Examples: 1. She debunks all the usual rubbish about acting. 2. More importantly, it debunks the idea that educational reform is instituted to enhance the skills of the labour force. 3. A very ordinary rural chap (the Mirror piece certainly debunking the idea that he is a reclusive loner), he has understandably won mass public sympathy for the way he was mistreated. 4. You may have heard of professor Richard Wiseman - a British psychologist famous for debunking irrational ideas. 5. However, by an analysis of econometric studies, case study work and official statistics, this paper debunks the idea that, for the majority of these groups, ‘things are getting better’. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic