What is 'confutatis maledictis' in English?

The meaning in English of the Latin Word 'confutatis' is the following: having been silenced. For the Word derives from the Latin verb 'confutare', which means 'to check the boiling point of a liquid'. The Word may go on to mean 'to check or repress' and 'to put down or silence'. The pronunciation is as follows: kohn-foo-TAH-tees.

The phrase confutatis maledictis appears in the the Latin Mass for the Dead, or Requiem Mass. It is what's known in Latin grammar as an ablative absolute, and is variously translated "When the accursed are confounded" or "when the damned are silenced".

In other circumstances, confutatis could also be a present-tense form of the same verb, meaning 'You (plural) are restraining/repressing".