rebut
See also: rebût
English
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English [Term?], from Old French reboter, rebuter, rebouter, etc., from re- + boter, buter, bouter (“to butt”). Entered English around 1302-1307.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɹɪ.ˈbʌt/
Audio (UK) (file)
- Rhymes: -ʌt
Verb
rebut (third-person singular simple present rebuts, present participle rebutting, simple past and past participle rebutted)
- To drive back or beat back; to repulse.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, stanza 53:
- Who him r'encountring fierce, as hauke in flight, / Perforce rebutted backe.
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- To deny the truth of something, especially by presenting arguments that disprove it.
- 1964 June, “News and Comment: Reprieve in the Far North”, in Modern Railways, page 373:
- Rebutting allegations that Scotland's railways had been deliberately run down, he pointed out that in the past nine years over £70m had been spent on their development.
Usage notes
- See refute.
Derived terms
- counterrebuttal
- irrebuttable
- rebuttable
- rebuttably
- rebuttal
- rebutter
- unrebuttable
- unrebuttably
- unrebutted
Translations
deny the truth of something
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drive back or beat back; to repulse
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References
- "rebut, v." listed in the Oxford English Dictionary (second edition, 1989)
Anagrams
- Ubert, brute, buret, tuber
Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /rəˈbut/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /reˈbut/
- Rhymes: -ut
Noun
rebut m (plural rebuts)
- receipt (acknowledgement that something has been received)
- Synonym: rebuda
Verb
rebut m (feminine rebuda, masculine plural rebuts, feminine plural rebudes)
- past participle of rebre
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁə.by/
Verb
rebut
- third-person singular past historic of reboire
Noun
rebut m (plural rebuts)
- (archaic) casting-off, throwing-away
- cast-off; scrap, rubbish
- scum, dreg
- dead letter
Further reading
- “rebut”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- brute, buter, tuber
Romanian
Etymology
From French rebut.
Noun
rebut n (plural rebuturi)
- cast-off; scrap, rubbish
Declension
Declension of rebut
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) rebut | rebutul | (niște) rebuturi | rebuturile |
genitive/dative | (unui) rebut | rebutului | (unor) rebuturi | rebuturilor |
vocative | rebutule | rebuturilor |