Verb
rebut (third-person singular simple present rebuts, present participle rebutting, simple past and past participle rebutted)
- To drive back or beat back; to repulse.
- 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.
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)
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drive back or beat back; to repulse
References
- "rebut, v." listed in the Oxford English Dictionary (second edition, 1989)
Noun
rebut n (plural rebuturi)
- cast-off; scrap, rubbish
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