• IPA: /ɹɪˈbʌf/

rebuff (plural rebuffs)

1. A sudden resistance or refusal.

   He was surprised by her quick rebuff to his proposal.

2. Repercussion, or beating back.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book 2”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:

     the strong rebuff of some tumultuous cloud

• French: rebuffade
• German: Abfuhr, Zurückweisung
• Italian: rifiuto, ricusa, ricusazione, ripulsa, rigetto
• Russian: отпо́р
• Spanish: rechazo

rebuff (rebuffs, present participle rebuffing; past and past participle rebuffed)

1. To refuse; to offer sudden or harsh resistance; to turn down or shut out.

• French: rejeter, refuser
• German: Abfuhr erteilen, zurückweisen
• Italian: ricusare, respingere, rifiutare, ripudiare, reclinare
• Russian: отка́зывать
• Spanish: rechazar, recusar

• IPA: /ɹiːˈbʌf/

rebuff (rebuffs, present participle rebuffing; past and past participle rebuffed)

1. (transitive) To buff again.