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rebutted

rebutted is the simple past and past participle of rebut.

Meaning of rebut

Verb

rebut (third-person singular simple present rebuts, present participle rebutting, simple past and past participle rebutted)

  1. To drive back or beat back; to repulse.
    • Who him r'encountring fierce, as hauke in flight, / Perforce rebutted backe.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 53
  2. To deny the truth of something, especially by presenting arguments that disprove it.
    • Rebutting allegations that Scotland's railways had been deliberately run down, he pointed out that in the past nine years over £70m had been spent on their development.1964 June, “News and Comment: Reprieve in the Far North”, in Modern Railways, page 373

Questions about rebutted

What is rebutted the simple past and past participle of?
Rebutted is the simple past and past participle of rebut.

Words near rebutted in the dictionary

  1. rebuttability
  2. rebuttable
  3. rebuttably
  4. rebuttal
  5. rebuttals
  6. rebutted
  7. rebutter
  8. rebuttered
  9. rebuttering
  10. rebutters
  11. rebutting

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