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rebussed

rebussed is the simple past and past participle of rebus.

Meaning of rebus

Verb

rebus (third-person singular simple present rebuses or rebusses, present participle rebusing or rebussing, simple past and past participle rebused or rebussed)

  1. (obsolete, rare, transitive) To represent (a phrase or word) as a rebus.
  2. (obsolete, rare, transitive) To apply a rebus to (something).
    • He [John Morton] was a learned man, and had a fair library, (rebussed with more in text and tun under it,) partly remaining in the possession of the late earl of Arundel.1655, Thomas Fuller, “Section IV. To John Ferrars, of Tamworth Castle, Esquire.”, in The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI)...

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Questions about rebussed

What is rebussed the simple past and past participle of?
Rebussed is the simple past and past participle of rebus.

Words near rebussed in the dictionary

  1. rebushing
  2. rebusied
  3. rebusies
  4. rebusing
  5. rebuslike
  6. rebussed
  7. rebusses
  8. rebussing
  9. rebusy
  10. rebusying
  11. rebut

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rebussed (page history and authors); rebus (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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