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rebutting

rebutting is the present participle and gerund 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 rebutting

What is rebutting the present participle and gerund of?
Rebutting is the present participle and gerund of rebut.

Words near rebutting in the dictionary

  1. rebutted
  2. rebutter
  3. rebuttered
  4. rebuttering
  5. rebutters
  6. rebutting
  7. rebutton
  8. rebuttoned
  9. rebuttoning
  10. rebuttons
  11. rebuy

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