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4 ادحض أدحض ادحض دحض , (A, TA,) inf. n. إِِدْحَاضٌ, (S,) He made (S, A, TA) a man's foot, (A, TA,) and a man, (TA,) to slip; (S, A, TA;) as also ↓ دَحَضَ . (TA.) ― -b2- It (rain) made a place slippery. (TA.) ― -b3- (tropical:) He (God, S, Msb, or a man, K) annulled, or rendered null or void, an argument, a plea, an allegation, or an evidence: (S, Msb, K:) he rebutted it; as also ↓ دَحَضَ , inf. n. دَحْضٌ. (TA; but in this instance, only the inf. n. of the latter verb is mentioned.) Thus in the Kur [xviii. 54, and xl. 5], لِيُدْحِضُوا بِهِ الحَقَّ (tropical:) That they may, or might, rebut thereby the truth. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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