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rebate
rebate is a 6-letter English word with 15 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 15 senses
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- 1transitive verb
To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise.
- 2transitive verb
To deduct from; to make a discount from, as interest due, or customs duties.
- 3intransitive verb
To abate; to withdraw.
- 4noun
Diminution.
- 5noun
Deduction; abatement; as, a rebate of interest for immediate payment; a rebate of importation duties.
- 6noun
A rectangular longitudinal recess or groove, cut in the corner or edge of any body; a rabbet. See Rabbet.
- 7noun
A piece of wood hafted into a long stick, and serving to beat out mortar.
- 8noun
An iron tool sharpened something like a chisel, and used for dressing and polishing wood.
- 9noun
A kind of hard freestone used in making pavements.
- 10transitive verb
To cut a rebate in. See Rabbet.
- 11noun
a rectangular groove made to hold two pieces together
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- 12noun
a refund of some fraction of the amount paid
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- 13verb
join with a rebate
"rebate the pieces of timber and stone"
- 14verb
cut a rebate in (timber or stone)
- 15verb
give a reduction in the price during a sale
"The store is rebating refrigerators this week"
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