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See also: rebût
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɹɪ.ˈbʌt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (Northern England) IPA(key): /ɹɪ.ˈbʊt/
- Rhymes: -ʌt
Verb
[edit]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.
- 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
[edit]- See refute.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]deny the truth of something
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drive back or beat back; to repulse
References
[edit]- "rebut, v." listed in the Oxford English Dictionary (second edition, 1989)
Anagrams
[edit]Catalan
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Central) [rəˈβut]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [rəˈbut]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [reˈbut]
- Rhymes: -ut
Noun
[edit]rebut m (plural rebuts)
Participle
[edit]rebut (feminine rebuda, masculine plural rebuts, feminine plural rebudes)
- past participle of rebre
French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]rebut
- third-person singular past historic of reboire
Noun
[edit]rebut m (plural rebuts)
Further reading
[edit]- “rebut”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
[edit]Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]rebut n (plural rebuturi)
Declension
[edit]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 |
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