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1. The exposure of falseness or pretensions
   "the debunking of religion has been too successful"
   - repudiation

1. Expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas
   "The physicist debunked the psychic's claims"
   - expose

Derived forms: debunkings

Type of: blackguard, exposure, guy, jest at, laugh at, make fun, poke fun, rib, ridicule, roast

Encyclopedia: Debunk