deconstruct = 'refudiate'

[Garson O'Toole]

Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> Hot off the presses:
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100902/lf_nm_life/us_britain_hawking
>
> In his latest book, [Hawkings]  said the 1992 discovery of a planet orbiting
> another star other than the Sun helped deconstruct the view of the father of
> physics Isaac Newton that the universe could not have arisen out of chaos
> but was created by God.

The Merriam Webster online dictionary does list a fourth sense that
seems to fit.

deconstruct
4 : destroy, demolish <nations that are deconstructing themselves —
Jim Hoagland>

Centripetal accelerative forces are deconstructing the rigidly
logo-centric neo-post-colonial interpretation of the token
"deconstruct", clearly.

Garson

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