Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To refute, especially by offering opposing evidence or arguments, as in a legal case.
- intransitive verb To repel or reject.
- intransitive verb To present opposing evidence or arguments.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To repel by force; rebuff; drive back.
- To thrust back or away, as by denial; refuse assent to; repel; reject.
- To repel by evidence or argument; bring counter-arguments against; refute, or strive to refute: much used in legal procedure.
- To withdraw: used reflexively.
- In law, to make an answer, as to a plaintiff's surrejoinder. Compare
surrebut . - In curling, to make a random stroke with great force, in the hope of gaining some advantage in the striking and displacement of the stones about the tee.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To drive or beat back; to repulse.
- transitive verb (Law) To contradict, meet, or oppose by argument, plea, or countervailing proof.
- intransitive verb obsolete To retire; to recoil.
- intransitive verb (Law) To make, or put in, an answer, as to a plaintiff's surrejoinder.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To drive back or beat back; to
repulse . - verb To deny the truth of something, especially by presenting arguments that disprove it.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb prove to be false or incorrect
- verb overthrow by argument, evidence, or proof
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Anyway, what you basically can’t rebut is that a group that’s decently optimized but not “Pun-Pun” type cheeseweasels is playing a game using these rules and finding our fighter to be an equal participant.
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Advocates of killing off the n-word rebut with a meditating question: Denigrating African-American women, glamorizing violence, defining an intelligent group of people with a racial slur — a term heavily drenched in ignorance and degradation, and all its many associations, is rational, sensible and intelligent?
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(Not "rebut" or "debate" or whatever else he actually meant, but "rebate," which had me secretly hoping he had a way to refund to us some of our time he had wasted.)
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(Not "rebut" or "debate" or whatever else he actually meant, but "rebate," which had me secretly hoping he had a way to refund to us some of our time he had wasted.)
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How can I "rebut" your "argument," Greg, when neither of us has any insider information or campaign psychology expertise?
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Limbaugh and his ilk did not become popular because they were ignored, there is simply a large reserve of sympathy for ignorance and hatred in the American populace. you can't "rebut" these people, they see their logic as infallible, even as it fails to reach even childish levels of reasoning.
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If you have indeed been able to "rebut" me should it not be obvious?
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I take it by "rebut" you mean the legal sense of "refute" - but refute implies success i.e. that you have disproved my contention.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Ann: Sorry love .... you've lost me ..... what was there to 'rebut'?
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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Ann: Sorry love .... you've lost me ..... what was there to 'rebut'?
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
oroboros commented on the word rebut
Tuber in reverse.
July 22, 2007