rebut

rebut is a 5-letter English word with 6 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To drive or beat back; to repulse. Face value is 7 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.

5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To drive or beat back; to repulse.
2. transitive verb. To contradict, meet, or oppose by argument, plea, or countervailing proof.
3. intransitive verb. To retire; to recoil.
4. intransitive verb. To make, or put in, an answer, as to a plaintiff's surrejoinder.
5. verb. prove to be false or incorrect

   Synonyms: controvert, refute

6. verb. overthrow by argument, evidence, or proof

   "The speaker refuted his opponent's arguments"

   Synonyms: refute

Synonyms

controvert, refute

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in rebut:

bruet, brute, buret, tuber

Common word forms

rebuts, rebutted, rebutter, rebutment, rebutting

Words from these letters

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