verb
definition
To drive back or beat back; to repulse.
definition
To deny the truth of something, especially by presenting arguments that disprove it.
Examples of rebut in a Sentence
The categorical charges made in the document rebut this plea.
You do not have to rebut every criticism made.
The onus was on the pursuer to rebut that presumption.
A first year law student could easily rebut the conclusions reached in the federal study.
He used study evidence to rebut vigorously, myths surrounding the use of dialysis in older patients.
This is an allusion to the charges of Thyestean banquets and other immoralities, which the early apologists constantly rebut.
The accusation that he was an "agrarian" he thought it necessary to rebut in a speech delivered on the 18th of February 5906 to the German Handelstag.
Relevant evidence to prove the offense may include anything tending to rebut claims of accidental presence near to the site.
It was arranged to renounce and rebut what Hooper had been and what Hooper had done.
They find that the dogmas of their church have often been attacked in the name of reason, and it may be that some of the objections urged have proved hard to rebut.
On purely defensive lines, early apologists rebut charges of cannibalism and sexual promiscuity; the Christians had to meet in secret, and the gossip of a rotten age drew malignant conclusions.
Davidson did a great deal to rebut these arguments.
It was these paradoxes that Kant sought to rebut by a more thoroughgoing criticism of the basis of knowledge the substance of which is summed up in his celebrated Refuta tion of Idealism,' wherein he sought to undermine Hume's scepticism by carrying it one step further and demonstrating that not only is all knowledge of self or object excluded, but the consciousness of any series of impressions and ideas is itself impossible except in relation to some external permanent and universally accepted world of objects.