debunk
de·bunk
verb
1.
expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas
- “The physicist debunked the psychic”
Origin
From de- (“away”) + bunk (“nonsense”) (from bunkum, from Buncombe County) 1923.
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