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, General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈbʌt/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (Northern England) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈbʊt/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈbɐt/
• 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]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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• 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

Declension of rebut

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