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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.

• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ɹɪˈbʌt/
• (Northern England) IPA(key): /ɹɪˈbʊt/
• (General Australian) IPA(key): /ɹɪˈbɐt/
• 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.
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.

• counterrebuttal

• irrebuttable

• prebut

• rebutment

• rebuttable

• rebuttably

• rebuttal

• rebutter

• surrebut

• unrebuttable

• unrebuttably

• unrebutted

deny the truth of something — see also refute

• Bulgarian: отричам (bg) (otričam)

• Catalan: refutar (ca)

• Chinese:
  Mandarin: (please verify) 駁 / 驳 (zh) (bó)

• Czech: rozporovat, vyvrátit (cs) pf, vyvracet (cs) impf, odrazit (cs) pf

• Dutch: weerleggen (nl)

• 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)

• Māori: 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
  Latin: (please verify) opòvrgnuti (sh) pf, (please verify) opovrgávati (sh) impf

• Spanish: rebatir (es), impugnar (es)

• Swedish: vederlägga (sv)

• Thai: (please verify) ตอบโต้ (th) (dtɔ̀ɔp-dtôo)

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

• Tuber, buret, tuber, brute, Ubert

• IPA(key): (Central) [rəˈβut]

• IPA(key): (Balearic) [rəˈbut]

• IPA(key): (Valencia) [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

merebut

1. to snatch, to tear away
   Synonyms: ragut, sambar

berebut

1. to compete for something
   Synonym: berlumba
   Ibu-ibu itu semua berebut-rebut membeli kek menggiur yang tengah dijual. ― The mothers raced to buy those enticing cakes on sale.

• Pijnappel, Jan (1875), “ربت rĕboet”, in Maleisch-Hollandsch woordenboek, John Enschede en Zonen, Frederik Muller, page 134
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1901), “ربت rĕbut”, in A Malay-English dictionary, Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh limited, page 321
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1932), “rĕbut”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume II, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, pages 322-3

Borrowed from French rebut.

rebut n (plural rebuturi)

1. cast-off; scrap, rubbish