Meaning & use
rebut
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To argue against and try to prove that a claim, statement, or accusation is false.
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The lawyer stood to rebut the witness's testimony point by point.
The scientist published a paper to rebut the earlier study's conclusions.
A note on using this word
Often confused with 'refute'; strictly, 'rebut' means to argue against a claim, while 'refute' traditionally means to actually disprove it.
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