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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To refute, especially by offering opposing evidence or arguments, as in a legal case.
  2. v. To repel.
  3. v. To present opposing evidence or arguments.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To repel by force; rebuff; drive back.
  2. To thrust back or away, as by denial; refuse assent to; repel; reject.
  3. To repel by evidence or argument; bring counter-arguments against; refute, or strive to refute: much used in legal procedure.
  4. To withdraw: used reflexively.
  5. In law, to make an answer, as to a plaintiff's surrejoinder. Compare surrebut.
  6. In curling, to make a random stroke with great force, in the hope of gaining some advantage in the striking and displacement of the stones about the tee.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To drive back or beat back; to repulse.
  2. v. To deny the truth of something, especially by presenting arguments that disprove it.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To drive or beat back; to repulse.
  2. v. (Law) To contradict, meet, or oppose by argument, plea, or countervailing proof.
  3. v. obsolete To retire; to recoil.
  4. v. (Law) To make, or put in, an answer, as to a plaintiff's surrejoinder.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. prove to be false or incorrect
  2. v. overthrow by argument, evidence, or proof

Etymologies

  1. Entering English 1302–1307, from the archaic French reboter, from Old French reboter, rebuter, rebouter, etc., from re- + boter, buter, bouter ("to butt"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English reboten, rebutte, to rebuke, repel, from Old French rebouter : re-, re- + bouter, to push (of Germanic origin; see bhau- in Indo-European roots). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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Words with the same meaning

  1. repulse
  1. retire
  1. recoil
  1. check
  1. disprove

hypernyms (2)

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  1. confute
  1. disprove

rhymes (26)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Hutt
  2. Knut
  3. abut
  4. but
  5. butt
  1. cut
  2. glut
  3. gut
  4. haute
  5. hut
  1. jut
  2. kut
  3. mutt
  4. nut
  5. phut
  1. putt
  2. rut
  3. shut
  4. shutt
  5. slut
  1. smut
  2. somewhat
  3. strut
  4. tut
  5. uncut
  1. what

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