ISEE/SSAT Vocabulary BuilderWordsIimpugn
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impugn
Meaning: to challenge the truth, honesty, or integrity of something
impugn in a sentence
How impugn is used in real sentences:
The attorney tried to impugn the witness's account of the accident.
Critics impugned the report because several of its sources could not be verified.
“The deputy mayor tried to impugn her report by calling its photographs misleading, although each image included a scale, date, and record of the lighting.”
— from the passage The Visible Scars
Synonyms for impugn
Other words for impugn — question, challenge and dispute — carry the same meaning.
- question
- challenge
- dispute
Antonyms of impugn
Words that mean the opposite of impugn:
- affirm
- defend
- vindicate
Where it comes from
From Latin impugnare, meaning 'to attack or assail.'
Memory hook
IMPUGN contains PUGN, meaning 'fight': to impugn is to fight a claim's credibility.