Dictionary Entry
rebuff
rebuff is a 6-letter English word with 7 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Repercussion, or beating back; a quick and sudden resistance. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 16 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 14 · Words With Friends 16 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
Repercussion, or beating back; a quick and sudden resistance.
- 2noun
Sudden check; unexpected repulse; defeat; refusal; repellence; rejection of solicitation.
- 3transitive verb
To beat back; to offer sudden resistance to; to check; to repel or repulse violently, harshly, or uncourteously.
- 4noun
a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval)
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- 5noun
an instance of driving away or warding off
- 6verb
reject outright and bluntly
"She snubbed his proposal"
- 7verb
force or drive back
"repel the attacker"
"fight off the onslaught"
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