rebut

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɹɪ.ˈbʌt/
• Rhymes: -ʌt

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.
   • Edmund Spenser

     Who him, recount'ring fierce, as hawk in flight, / Perforce rebutted back.

2. To deny the truth of something, especially by presenting arguments that disprove it.

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

• brute, buret, tuber

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /rəˈbut/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /reˈbut/
• Rhymes: -ut

rebut m (plural rebuts)

1. receipt (acknowledgement that something has been received)

   Synonym: rebuda

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

1. past participle of rebre

• IPA^(key): /ʁəby/

rebut

1. third-person singular past historic of reboire

rebut m (plural rebuts)

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

• “rebut” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• brute, buter, tuber