oppugn means To contradict or controvert; to oppose; to challenge or question the truth or validity of a given statement. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Why this word is great
OPPUGN — [Verb] To assail or call into question the truth, validity, or principles of something through formal argument. From the Latin oppugnāre, from ob- ("toward, against") + pugnāre ("to fight"). Unlike "impugn," which often aims a slender dagger at personal motives, or "contradict," which merely states a countering fact, to oppugn is to marshal a full-frontal assault upon the very ramparts of an idea. It is the scholar's patient dismantling of a foundational treatise, the relentless cross-examination that tests a testimony like a fortress wall, and the sustained battery of logic against a cherished dogma—a recognition that the arena of thought is, and has always been, a field of battle where certainty must weather storms to prove its strength.
verb
- To contradict or controvert; to oppose; to challenge or question the truth or validity of a given statement.“If nothing can oppugne love,
And virtue invious ways can prove,
What may not he confide to do
That brings both love and virtue too?”