Crossword-Solution: REBUT 5 letters, 86 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

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Word Word Type Definition
Rebut v. t. To drive or beat back; to repulse.
Rebut v. t. To contradict, meet, or oppose by argument, plea, or
countervailing proof.
Rebut v. i. To retire; to recoil.
Rebut v. i. To make, or put in, an answer, as to a plaintiff's
surrejoinder.

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REBUT anagram BRUTE, BURET, TUBER

We have 86 clues for the answer “REBUT”

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Counter in court 1 answer
Go second in a debate 1 answer
Give contrary proof 1 answer
Give a counterargument 1 answer
Argue against an accusation 1 answer
Disprove a debate claim 1 answer
Debate verb. 1 answer
Counterpunch, in a way 1 answer
Counterpunch verbally 1 answer
Counter-argue 1 answer
Counter, as an argument 1 answer
Make a counterargument 1 answer
Counter in a debate 1 answer
Counter by argument 1 answer
Counter at the bar 1 answer
Counter an argument 1 answer
Contradict^REBU 1 answer
Contradict, as testimony 1 answer
Contradict in court 1 answer
Contradict in a debate 1 answer
Attempt to disprove 1 answer
Attempt to discredit 1 answer
Provide a counter-example 1 answer
argue back 1 answer
Try to take down 1 answer
Try to disprove 1 answer
To disprove a point 1 answer
Show otherwise 1 answer
Shoot down, in a way 1 answer
Say "Well, actually..." to 1 answer
Refute with evidence 1 answer
Refute by argument 1 answer
Provide opposing evidence 1 answer
Attack in a debate. 1 answer
Prove to be false or incorrect 1 answer
Present a counterargument to 1 answer
Orally oppose 1 answer
Oppose by contrary proof. 1 answer
Offer refutation 1 answer
Offer counterevidence 1 answer
Offer a counterargument 1 answer
Offer a contrary opinion 1 answer
Make a counterargument against 1 answer
Argue the opposing viewpoint 1 answer
Answer to counter 1 answer
Address each point of, maybe 1 answer
10 Counter 1 answer
Participate in a debate 2 answers
Prove otherwise 2 answers
Part of a debate 2 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with REBUT (5)

You could verify this by talking to the medical students, but you are not allowed to." Esther tried to follow Diana's words and rebut each point as she heard it but was overcome by the simple truth of what she was hearing.
Wild Justice Ruth M. Sprague 1994
And then he wondered if he had not neglected chances; but in answer to this his injured self-love rose to rebut the idea that he had wasted any portion of his time, and he assured himself that he had done the work that he had cut out for himself to do as best he could; no one but himself knew with what courage and spirit.
Soldiers of Fortune Richard Harding Davis 1996
Accused of certain acts of violence, and unable to rebut the charge with any effect, he flies to the old convention: "I didn't know what I was doing," he avers, using a great deal of gesticulation to express the temporary distraction of his mind.
Ceres' Runaway Alice Meynell 2005
Courtland will be able to bring forward trustworthy evidence to rebut the suspicion of his having upon at least one occasion induced even the friendly natives to believe that he possessed the power of the Deity to perform miracles, and upon another occasion of having used dynamite against them by which hundreds were destroyed in cold blood.
Phyllis of Philistia Frank Frankfort Moore 2006
The thing is manifestly ridiculous.” “Then why should we trouble ourselves with the attempt to rebut it?” “Because so many people are idiots nowadays,” cried Phyllis warmly.
Phyllis of Philistia Frank Frankfort Moore 2006

Quotes with REBUT (3)

Challenge a person's beliefs, and you challenge his dignity, standing, and power. And when those beliefs are based on nothing but faith, they are chronically fragile. No one gets upset about the belief that rocks fall down as opposed to up, because all sane people can see it with their own eyes. Not so for the belief that babies are born with original sin or that God exists in three persons or that Ali is the second-most divinely inspired man after Muhammad. When people organ…
Steven Pinker The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
And if Francoise then, inspired like a poet with a flood of confused reflections upon bereavement, grief, and family memories, were to plead her inability to rebut my theories, saying: "I don't know how to espress (sic) myself" - I would triumph over her with an ironical and brutal common sense worthy of Dr. Percepied; and if she went on: "All the same she was a geological (sic) relation; there is always the respect due to your geology (sic)," I would shrug my shoulders and s…
Marcel Proust Swann's Way
Most counseling cases today involve good desires that have become overgrown. In these cases most relevant passages of Scripture may not be those that rebut particular manifestations of sin, but those that remind us to love God with all our hearts.
James MacDonald Christ-Centered Biblical Counseling: Changing Lives with God's Changeless Truth
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Used 131 times in crossword archives (1961–2024).