rebut

See also: rebût

English

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English rebutten, rebouten, from Old French reboter, rebuter, rebouter, etc., from re- ‎ boter, buter, bouter (“to butt”). Entered English around 1302-1307.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈbʌt/

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• (Northern England) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈbʊt/
• Rhymes: -ʌt

Verb

rebut (third-person singular simple present rebuts, present participle rebutting, simple past and past participle rebutted)

1. 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.

3. 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

• Bulgarian: отричам (bg) (otričam)
• Catalan: refutar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 駁／驳 (zh) (bó)

• Czech: ^{(please verify)} odporovat
• French: réfuter (fr)
• Greek: αντικρούω (el) (antikroúo), ανασκευάζω (el) (anaskevázo)
• Ido: refutar (io)
• Irish: bréagnaigh, diúltaigh do
• Italian: confutare (it)
• Japanese: 反証 (ja) (hanshou), 反駁 (ja) (hanbaku)
• Latin: refellō (la)
• Maori: whakahore, whakatito, whawhati, whakakore, whakaparau
• Persian: تکذیب کردن (fa) (takzib kardan)
• Polish: obalać (pl) impf
• Portuguese: ^{(please verify)} refutar (pt), ilidir (pt)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ^{(please verify)} опо̀вргнути pf, ^{(please verify)} оповрга́вати impf

  Roman: ^{(please verify)} opòvrgnuti (sh) pf, ^{(please verify)} opovrgávati (sh) impf

• Spanish: refutar (es)
• Swedish: vederlägga (sv)
• Thai: ^{(please verify)} ตอบโต้ (th) (dtɔ̀ɔp-dtôo)

drive back or beat back; to repulse

• Bulgarian: отхвърлям (bg) (othvǎrljam)
• Catalan: rebutjar (ca)
• Finnish: torjua (fi)
• Maori: taiari, taieri
• Polish: odrzucać (pl) impf

References

• "rebut, v." listed in the Oxford English Dictionary (second edition, 1989)

Anagrams

• Tuber, buret, tuber, brute, Ubert

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [rəˈβut]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [rəˈbut]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [reˈbut]
• Rhymes: -ut

Noun

rebut m (plural rebuts)

1. receipt (acknowledgement that something has been received)

   Synonyms: rebuda, tiquet

Participle

rebut (feminine rebuda, masculine plural rebuts, feminine plural rebudes)

1. past participle of rebre

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.by/

Verb

rebut

1. third-person singular past historic of reboire

Noun

rebut m (plural rebuts)

1. (archaic) casting-off, throwing-away
2. cast-off; scrap, rubbish
3. scum, dreg
4. 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

Borrowed from French rebut.

Noun

rebut n (plural rebuturi)

1. cast-off; scrap, rubbish

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	rebut	rebutul		rebuturi	rebuturile
genitive-dative	rebut	rebutului		rebuturi	rebuturilor
vocative	rebutule			rebuturilor