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📖 Определения и значения для слова contradict

📒 to say that something that somebody else has said is wrong, and that the opposite is true

  • contradict something All evening her husband contradicted everything she said.
  • contradict somebody/yourself You've just contradicted yourself (= said the opposite of what you said before).
  • contradict (somebody) + speech ‘No, it’s not,’ she contradicted (him).

📒 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.
  • There is clear evidence that TV advertising influences what children buy.
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