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third-person singular simple present rebuts, present participle rebutting, simple past and past participle rebutted
To drive back or beat back; to repulse. quotations examples
Who him r'encountring fierce, as hauke in flight, / Perforce rebutted backe.
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, stanza 53
To deny the truth of something, especially by presenting arguments that disprove it. quotations examples
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.
1964 June, “News and Comment: Reprieve in the Far North”, in Modern Railways, page 373