Definition of "rebut" []

• To refute, especially by offering opposing evidence or arguments, as in a legal case. (verb-transitive)
• To repel. (verb-transitive)
• To present opposing evidence or arguments. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Anyway, what you basically can’t rebut is that a group that’s decently optimized but not “Pun-Pun” type cheeseweasels is playing a game using these rules and finding our fighter to be an equal participant."
• "Advocates of killing off the n-word rebut with a meditating question: Denigrating African-American women, glamorizing violence, defining an intelligent group of people with a racial slur — a term heavily drenched in ignorance and degradation, and all its many associations, is rational, sensible and intelligent?"
• "(Not "rebut" or "debate" or whatever else he actually meant, but "rebate," which had me secretly hoping he had a way to refund to us some of our time he had wasted.)"