1. To refute, especially by offering opposing evidence or arguments, as in a legal case. 2. To repel.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
To present opposing evidence or arguments.
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English reboten, rebutte, to rebuke, repel, from Old French rebouter : re-, re- + bouter, to push (of Germanic origin; see bhau- in Appendix I).
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