intransitive verb. To refute, especially by offering opposing evidence or arguments, as in a legal case.

intransitive verb. To repel or reject.

intransitive verb. To present opposing evidence or arguments.

To repel by force; rebuff; drive back.

To thrust back or away, as by denial; refuse assent to; repel; reject.

To repel by evidence or argument; bring counter-arguments against; refute, or strive to refute: much used in legal procedure.

To withdraw: used reflexively.

In law, to make an answer, as to a plaintiff's surrejoinder. Compare surrebut.

In curling, to make a random stroke with great force, in the hope of gaining some advantage in the striking and displacement of the stones about the tee.

transitive verb. To drive or beat back; to repulse.

transitive verb. To contradict, meet, or oppose by argument, plea, or countervailing proof.

intransitive verb. To retire; to recoil.

intransitive verb. To make, or put in, an answer, as to a plaintiff's surrejoinder.

verb. To drive back or beat back; to repulse.

verb. To deny the truth of something, especially by presenting arguments that disprove it.

verb. prove to be false or incorrect

verb. overthrow by argument, evidence, or proof

rebuttal  rebutter  

confute  disprove  

Hutt  Knut  abut  but  butt  

advocate  allege in support  answer  answer conclusively  argue down  

rebutted  rebutting  

rebuts  rebutted  rebutting