REBUTS
Verb
rebuts
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of rebut
Anagrams
• Buster, Strube, Stuber, brutes, burets, buster, surbet, tubers
Source: Wiktionary
REBUT
Re*but", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rebutted; p. pr. & vb. n. Rebutting.]
Etym: [OF. reb to repulse, drive back; pref. re- + bouter to push,
thrust. See 1st Butt, Boutade.]
1. To drive or beat back; to repulse.
Who him, recount'ring fierce, as hawk in flight, Perforce rebutted
back. Spenser.
2. (Law)
Definition: To contradict, meet, or oppose by argument, plea, or
countervailing proof. Abbott.
Re*but", v. i.
1. To retire; to recoil. [Obs.] Spenser.
2. (Law)
Definition: To make, or put in, an answer, as to a plaintiff's
surrejoinder.
The plaintiff may answer the rejoinder by a surrejoinder; on which
the defendant. Blackstone.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition