rebut
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation 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 ↗, stanza 53:
- Who him r'encountring fierce, as hauke in flight, / Perforce rebutted backe.
To deny the truth of something, especially by presenting arguments that disprove it.
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