The attorney offered evidence that controverted the plaintiff's allegations.
ever since the poem was first published, critics and scholars have controverted over the meaning of its concluding lines
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First Known Use: 1563
in the meaning defined at transitive sense
See Words from the same year: to say or prove that (something) is untrue
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