disbelieve

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to be unable or unwilling to believe something or someone

   The jury seemed to disbelieve every word of the witness's account.

A 17th-century formation from dis- ('reversal') plus believe; believe is from Old English belȳfan, gelȳfan ('to believe'), from Proto-Germanic *galaubijaną, related to love and to lief ('dear').

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