1. expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas; - Example: "The physicist debunked the psychic's claims" [syn: debunk, expose]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
debunk
v 1: expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false
claims and ideas; "The physicist debunked the psychic's
claims" [syn: debunk, expose]