rebut
verb (used with object), re·but·ted, re·but·ting.
verb (used without object), re·but·ted, re·but·ting.
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invalidate, deny, refute, quash, disprove, negate, confound, repulse, top, negative, cross, break, controvert, repel, confute, defeat, overturn, evert, disconfirmExamples from the Web for rebutted
Contemporary Examples of rebutted
Anything acknowledgment of potential downsides to a policy must be rebutted fiercely.
Democrats Can’t Accept the Trade Off of a Job-Killing Minimum WageKristen Soltis Anderson
February 20, 2014
Thiessen rebutted with a laconic Tweet: "Frum votes for surrender."
The false narrative of conspiracy theorists on Pakistani cable news channels must be rebutted.
Hennepin County (Minneapolis) Attorney Mike Freeman rebutted their charges this week.
In a cofounding exchange, he rebutted by also calling her fake, with Snooki following suit, saying that Pauly D and Vinny agreed.
Historical Examples of rebutted
This argument, good as far as it goes, is rebutted in the following manner.
The English LanguageRobert Gordon Latham
"I don't know as I've been chattering all over Bursley," he rebutted her.
Helen with the High Hand (2nd ed.)Arnold Bennett
As that charge would damage the cause, it must be rebutted in advance.
The Inside Story Of The Peace ConferenceEmile Joseph Dillon
The applicants contend that this is not simply a case where the conspiracy suggestion could not have been rebutted.
Judgments of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand on Proceedings to Review Aspects of the Report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Mount Erebus Aircraft DisasterSir Owen Woodhouse, R. B. Cooke, Ivor L. M. Richardson, Duncan Wallace McMullin, and Sir Edward Somers
All these assailants had to be rebutted, some by fair words, some by foul, and some by blows.
Master Humphrey's ClockCharles Dickens