N. counter evidence, evidence on the other side, evidence on the other hand, conflicting evidence, contradictory evidence, opposing evidence, disproof, refutation, negation, plea, vindication counter protest, "tu quoque" argument, other side of the shield, other side of the coin, reverse of the shield

V. countervail, oppose, mitigate against, rebut, subvert, cheek, weaken, contravene, contradict, tell the other side of the story, tell another story, turn the scale, alter the case, turn the tables, cut both ways, prove a negative, audire alteram partem

Adj. countervailing, contradictory, unattested, unauthenticated, unsupported by evidence, supposititious

Adv. on the contrary, per contra

N. {ant 478} confutation, refutation, answer, complete answer, disproof, conviction, redargution, invalidation, exposure, exposition, clincher, retort, reductio ad absurdum, knock down argument, tu quoque argument, sockdolager *, correction, dissuasion

V. confute, refute, disprove, parry, negative, controvert, rebut, confound, disconfirm, redargue, expose, show the fallacy of, defeat, demolish, break, overthrow, overturn scatter to the winds, explode, invalidate, silence, put to silence, reduce to silence, clinch an argument, clinch a question, give one a setdown, stop the mouth, shut up, have, have on the hip, not leave a leg to stand on, cut the ground from under one's feet, be confuted &c, fail, expose one's weak point, show one's weak point, counter evidence

Adj. confuting, confuted, &c. v, capable of refutation, refutable, confutable, defeasible, contravene (counter evidence) 468, condemned on one's own showing, condemned out of one's own mouth

Phr. the argument falls to the ground, cadit quaestio, it does not hold water, "suo sibi gladio hunc jugulo", his argument was demolished by new evidence