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While it is useful to rebut charges and get your arguments out in circulation, you have to understand that arguments and evidence have little impact on people as long as their feelings tilt them against you.
Jonathan Haidt

Meaning of "rebut" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD REBUT

From Old French reboter, from re- + boter to thrust, butt³.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF REBUT

rebut  [rɪˈbʌt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF REBUT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Rebut is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb rebut in English.

WHAT DOES REBUT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of rebut in the English dictionary

The definition of rebut in the dictionary is to refute or disprove, esp by offering a contrary contention or argument.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO REBUT

PRESENT

Present
I rebut
you rebut
he/she/it rebuts
we rebut
you rebut
they rebut
Present continuous
I am rebuting
you are rebuting
he/she/it is rebuting
we are rebuting
you are rebuting
they are rebuting
Present perfect
I have rebuted
you have rebuted
he/she/it has rebuted
we have rebuted
you have rebuted
they have rebuted
Present perfect continuous
I have been rebuting
you have been rebuting
he/she/it has been rebuting
we have been rebuting
you have been rebuting
they have been rebuting
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I rebuted
you rebuted
he/she/it rebuted
we rebuted
you rebuted
they rebuted
Past continuous
I was rebuting
you were rebuting
he/she/it was rebuting
we were rebuting
you were rebuting
they were rebuting
Past perfect
I had rebuted
you had rebuted
he/she/it had rebuted
we had rebuted
you had rebuted
they had rebuted
Past perfect continuous
I had been rebuting
you had been rebuting
he/she/it had been rebuting
we had been rebuting
you had been rebuting
they had been rebuting
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will rebut
you will rebut
he/she/it will rebut
we will rebut
you will rebut
they will rebut
Future continuous
I will be rebuting
you will be rebuting
he/she/it will be rebuting
we will be rebuting
you will be rebuting
they will be rebuting
Future perfect
I will have rebuted
you will have rebuted
he/she/it will have rebuted
we will have rebuted
you will have rebuted
they will have rebuted
Future perfect continuous
I will have been rebuting
you will have been rebuting
he/she/it will have been rebuting
we will have been rebuting
you will have been rebuting
they will have been rebuting
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would rebut
you would rebut
he/she/it would rebut
we would rebut
you would rebut
they would rebut
Conditional continuous
I would be rebuting
you would be rebuting
he/she/it would be rebuting
we would be rebuting
you would be rebuting
they would be rebuting
Conditional perfect
I would have rebut
you would have rebut
he/she/it would have rebut
we would have rebut
you would have rebut
they would have rebut
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been rebuting
you would have been rebuting
he/she/it would have been rebuting
we would have been rebuting
you would have been rebuting
they would have been rebuting
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you rebut
we let´s rebut
you rebut
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to rebut
Past participle
rebuted
Present Participle
rebuting
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH REBUT


abut
əˈbʌt
blackbutt
ˈblækˌbʌt
but
bʌt
butt
bʌt
hackbut
ˈhækbʌt
hagbut
ˈhæɡbʌt
sacbut
ˈsækˌbʌt
sackbut
ˈsækˌbʌt
sagbut
ˈsæɡˌbʌt
scuttlebutt
ˈskʌtəlˌbʌt
surrebut
ˌsʌrɪˈbʌt
woollybutt
ˈwʊlɪˌbʌt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE REBUT

rebuild
rebuilding
rebuilt
rebukable
rebuke
rebukeful
rebukefully
rebuker
rebukingly
reburial
rebury
rebus
rebutment
rebuttable
rebuttal
rebutted
rebutter
rebutting
rebutton
rebuy

WORDS THAT END LIKE REBUT

all but
anything but
barbut
cannot choose but
cannot help but
debut
Greenland halibut
halibut
holibut
Korbut
nobbut
nothing but

Synonyms and antonyms of rebut in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «REBUT»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «rebut» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of rebut

Translation of «rebut» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF REBUT

Find out the translation of rebut to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of rebut from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «rebut» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

反驳
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

refutar
570 millions of speakers

English

rebut
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

गलत साबित करना
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

دحض
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

опровергнуть
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

refutar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

খণ্ডন করা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

réfuter
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Rebut
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

widerlegen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

反論する
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

반박
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Rebut
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cự tuyệt
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தள்ளுபடி செய்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

खंडन करणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

çürütmek
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

confutare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

obalić
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

спростувати
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

respinge
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αντικρούσει
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

weerlê
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

vederlägga
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tilbakevise
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of rebut

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «REBUT»

The term «rebut» is quite widely used and occupies the 34.028 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «REBUT» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «rebut» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «rebut» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about rebut

EXAMPLES

QUOTES WITH «REBUT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word rebut.
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Jonathan Haidt
While it is useful to rebut charges and get your arguments out in circulation, you have to understand that arguments and evidence have little impact on people as long as their feelings tilt them against you.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «REBUT»

Discover the use of rebut in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to rebut and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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New Scientist
FORUM CHRISTMAS 1976 was a bad time for Paul Rebut. The project he had worked on for four years was going nowhere. The scientists and engineers had done a magnificent job, but the politicians could not agree. For three years they had ...
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Scalable Uncertainty Management: 4th International ...
Note also that the rebut relation violates most of the properties studied in [1]. In particular, it is not homogeneous. Since the rebut relation is symmetric, it is not valid in the case that the knowledge base contains n-ary (other than binary) minimal ...
Amol Deshpande, Anthony Hunter, 2010
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A Systematic Arrangement of Lord Coke's First Institute of ...
If the warranty be made to a "my; man and i118 heirs without the word (assigns), yet the assignee, or any tenant of the land, may rebut. And albeit no man Persons not priry in estate may rebut, but not vouch: (See Vangh. 388.) or persons in by ...
‎1818
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Debating in the World Schools Style: A Guide
One point deserves emphasis before we move on: It is a big step to rebut a definition. If you rebut the definition wrongly, or badly, you will often lose as a result. Therefore, only rebut the definition when you feel confident that you cannot  ...
Simon Quinn, 2009
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The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former ...
The Prosecution tendered into evidence two reports seized from the Zvornik Brigade headquarters as well as a map, in order to rebut the accused's testimony that he did not know Muslim prisoners were being captured by the VRS on 12 ...
André Klip, Göran Sluiter, 2005
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Trial of impeachment of Levi Hubbell, judge of the Second ...
Mr. President, I never made such an offer in this cause as an original proposition. I made it in reply to his proposition. He proposes to rebut this story, the testimony of Mrs. Van Bergen, without hearing and without having that testimony before ...
T. C. Leland, Wisconsin. Legislature. Senate, 1853
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New York Evidence Handbook: Rules, Theory, and Practice
53 Other decisions state in dictum that prior consistent statements offered to rebut a charge of recent fabrication are only admissible for credibility purposes, not for their truth.54 In its latest case on the subject, People v. Buie,55 the court stated ...
Michael M. Martin, Daniel J. Capra, Faust F. Rossi, 2003
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Dispute Settlement Reports 2004
3.20 This is confirmed by the last sentence of Article 3.8, which provides the opportunity for the alleged violating party to rebut the presumption of nullification or impairment. If violation was conceptually equated by Article 3.8 to nullification or ...
World Trade Organization, 2006
9
Sourcebook on Trusts Law 2/e
Where the existence of an equitable interest depends upon a rebuttable presumption or inference of the transferor's intention, evidence may be given of his subsequent conduct in order to rebut the presumption or inference which would ...
Ramjohn, 1998
10
ECAI 2002: 15th European Conference on Artificial ...
There are two fundamental notions of attack: undercut, which invalidates an assumption of an argument, and rebut, which contradicts a conclusion of an argument [6, 16]. From these, we may define further notions of attack, by allowing either of ...
Frank Van Harmelen, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «REBUT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term rebut is used in the context of the following news items.
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Marines rebut study showing declining officer test scores
Marine second lieutenants have done progressively worse on a standardized test administered at The Basic School over the last 35 years, a new report finds ... «Marine Corps Times, Jul 15»
2
Video in Death of Palestinian Seems to Rebut Israeli Military
JERUSALEM — An Israeli human rights group on Monday challenged the military's account of an episode in which a soldier shot and killed a Palestinian youth ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
3
Rebut, refute and reform
Use of 'refute" when "rebut" is meant. People rebut all the time but it usually requires solid facts to refute. 3. Politicians who use "invest" when they mean "spend. «News & Observer, Jul 15»
4
Brazil ministers rebut new wave of campaign funding allegations
BRASILIA/SAO PAULO, June 26 Two Brazilian ministers denied on Friday that there was anything illegal about campaign donations made in recent years by a ... «Reuters, Jun 15»
5
Hillary Tries to Rebut Clinton Cash, Fails
Yesterday Hillary Clinton finally answered a few questions about Peter Schweizer's Clinton Cash. We have written extensively about the revelations in that book, ... «Power Line, Jun 15»
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Bradley Wiggins' team rebut rule-bending accusations in hour record
Bradley Wiggins gets his head down on his custom-built bike as he sets the hour record at the Velodrome. Photograph: Bryn Lennon/Getty Images. «The Guardian, Jun 15»
7
Rubio seeks to rebut skeptics on the experience factor
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) on Saturday took aim at those skeptical of his qualifications to lead the White House. At the inaugural “Roast and Ride” hosted by Sen ... «The Hill, Jun 15»
8
Redskins guard Arie Kouandjio out to rebut the 'name only, can't …
The Redskins got generally high marks from NFL analysts for their draft moves despite taking a handful of prospects higher than most deemed worthy. «Washington Post, May 15»
9
Senate Dems host climate change forum to rebut GOP
ALBANY—Democratic state senators hosted a public forum on Tuesday to rebut their Republican colleagues who have publicly questioned human-caused ... «Capital New York, May 15»
10
Chip Kelly should rebut that racism talk
Nelson Agholor (left) speaks during a news conference with the Eagles 2015 first-round pick as coach Chip Kelly listens. (David Maialetti/Staff Photographer). «Philly.com, May 15»

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