Thesaurus: rebut

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1. v. t. To drive or beat back; to repulse.
2. v. t. To contradict, meet, or oppose by argument, plea, or countervailing proof.
3. v. i. To retire; to recoil.
4. v. i. To make, or put in, an answer, as to a plaintiff's surrejoinder.
5. v. overthrow by argument, evidence, or proof
6. v. prove to be false or incorrect
7. 1. To drive or beat back; to repulse. Who him, recount'ring fierce, as hawk in flight, Perforce rebutted back. Spenser. 2. (Law) To contradict, meet, or oppose by argument, plea, or countervailing proof. Abbott. 1. To retire; to recoil. [Obs.] Spenser. 2. (Law) To make, or put in, an answer, as to a plaintiff's surrejoinder. The plaintiff may answer the rejoinder by a surrejoinder; on which the defendant. Blackstone.
8. To contradict, meet, or oppose by argument, plea, orcountervailing proof. Abbott.
9. v:100 v overthrow by argument, evidence, or proof v prove to be false or incorrect