rebut

Inherited from Middle English [Term?], from Old French reboter, rebuter, rebouter, etc., from re- +‎ boter, buter, bouter (“to butt”). Entered English around 1302-1307.

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

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• (Northern England) IPA^(key): /ɹɪ.ˈbʊt/
• 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.
   • 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.

2. 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.

• See refute.

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

• Ubert, brute, buret, tuber

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

rebut m (plural rebuts)

1. receipt (acknowledgement that something has been received)

   Synonyms: rebuda, tiquet

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

1. past participle of rebre

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.by/

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 Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• brute, buter, tuber

Borrowed from French rebut.

rebut n (plural rebuturi)

1. cast-off; scrap, rubbish