Rebut

[rɪ'bʌt]

Definition

(v. t.) To drive or beat back; to repulse.

(v. t.) To contradict, meet, or oppose by argument, plea, or countervailing proof.

(v. i.) To retire; to recoil.

(v. i.) To make, or put in, an answer, as to a plaintiff's surrejoinder.

Editor: Orville

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. Repel (by argument or by evidence), confute, refute, disprove, show the fallacy of.

Typed by Eddie

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Meet, retort, annul, confute

ANT:Accept, sanction, recognize, confirm

Edited by Debra

Definition

v.t. to butt or drive back: to repel: to reject: (law) to oppose by argument or proof.—v.i. (law) to return an answer:—pr.p. rebut′ting; pa.t. and pa.p. rebut′ted.—adj. Rēbut′table.—ns. Rēbut′tal; Rēbut′ter that which rebuts: a plaintiff's answer to a defendant's rejoinder.

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