Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - contradict

(contradicts, contradicting, contradicted) 1. If you contradict someone, you say that what they have just said is wrong, or suggest that it is wrong by saying something different. She dared not contradict him... His comments appeared to contradict remarks made earlier in the day by the chairman... He often talks in circles, frequently contradicting himself and often ends up saying nothing. VERB: V n, V n, V pron-refl 2. If one statement or piece of evidence contradicts another, the first one makes the second one appear to be wrong. The result seems to contradict a major U.S. study reported last November. VERB: V n