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rebutting

/ri-buht/US // rɪˈbʌt //UK // (rɪˈbʌt) //

反驳,驳斥,抗辩,辩驳

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    re·but·ted, re·but·ting.

    • : to refute by evidence or argument.
    • : to oppose by contrary proof.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    re·but·ted, re·but·ting.

    • : to provide some evidence or argument that refutes or opposes.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbargue against; prove wrong

Examples

  • A number of concerned citizens set up a Facebook group, Les Vaxxeuses, in order to rebut their often erroneous or misleading claims.

  • Rebutting criticism from her friends, she returned to her home country.

  • Rebutting my suggestion that a Romney foreign policy would be hyper-cautious, Andrew writes: Not.

  • Stephens is obviously the ‘conservative’, rebutting Mill, the ‘liberal’.

  • Yesterday I wrote a lengthy post rebutting Phil Gramm and Glenn Hubbard.

  • In his first moment as president, Obama closed the age of Reagan by rebutting its first principles and addressing its failures.

  • The presentation of the Railway case and the rebutting evidence did not begin till all the public witnesses had been heard.

  • No way lay open for rebutting this justification, but by bringing out all the circumstances attendant on the transaction.

  • By a curious coincidence, Professor Keith, in rebutting the whole hypothesis, makes a statement not irrelevant in this connexion.

  • "Thou art too winning even to be resisted by one wearied with rebutting plausible pretensions," he added.

  • I shall call rebutting evidence to prove up to the hilt that the hidden hand is again at its old game.