Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to rebut
Participle: rebuted
Gerund: rebuting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | rebut |
| you | rebut |
| he;she;it | rebuts |
| we | rebut |
| you | rebut |
| they | rebut |
Perfect
| I | have rebuted |
| you | have rebuted |
| he;she;it | has rebuted |
| we | have rebuted |
| you | have rebuted |
| they | have rebuted |
Past
| I | rebuted |
| you | rebuted |
| he;she;it | rebuted |
| we | rebuted |
| you | rebuted |
| they | rebuted |
Pluperfect
| I | had rebuted |
| you | had rebuted |
| he;she;it | had rebuted |
| we | had rebuted |
| you | had rebuted |
| they | had rebuted |
Future
| I | will rebut |
| you | will rebut |
| he;she;it | will rebut |
| we | will rebut |
| you | will rebut |
| they | will rebut |
Future Perfect
| I | will have rebuted |
| you | will have rebuted |
| he;she;it | will have rebuted |
| we | will have rebuted |
| you | will have rebuted |
| they | will have rebuted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | rebut |
| you | rebut |
| he;she;it | rebut |
| we | rebut |
| you | rebut |
| they | rebut |
Perfect
| I | have rebuted |
| you | have rebuted |
| he;she;it | have rebuted |
| we | have rebuted |
| you | have rebuted |
| they | have rebuted |
Imperfect
| I | rebuted |
| you | rebuted |
| he;she;it | rebuted |
| we | rebuted |
| you | rebuted |
| they | rebuted |
Pluperfect
| I | had rebuted |
| you | had rebuted |
| he;she;it | had rebuted |
| we | had rebuted |
| you | had rebuted |
| they | had rebuted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would rebut |
| you | would rebut |
| he;she;it | would rebut |
| we | would rebut |
| you | would rebut |
| they | would rebut |
Perfect
| I | would have rebuted |
| you | would have rebuted |
| he;she;it | would have rebuted |
| we | would have rebuted |
| you | would have rebuted |
| they | would have rebuted |
Imperative
| you | rebut |
| we | Let's rebut |
| you | rebut |
Verbs conjugated like 'rebut'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'rebut'
debut,
rebud,
rebus,
rebuy,
recut,
reput,
abut,
becut,
but,
debit,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- argue
- refute, answer, plead, contest, dispute, rejoin, react, defend
Antonyms
- argue
- harmonize, overlook, ignore, propound
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1300, from O.Fr.
rebuter "to thrust back," from
re- "back" +
boter "to thrust, hit" (see butt (v.)). Sense of "try to disprove, refute" is from 1817.
Rebuttal first recorded 1830.
2. Inherited from Middle English rebutten, rebouten, from Old French reboter, rebuter, rebouter, etc., from re- + boter, buter, bouter (“to butt”). Entered English around 1302-1307. See: Old French '
reboter'.
Sample Sentences
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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:]
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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:]