0 to argue that a statement or claim is not true:
She has rebutted charges that she has been involved in any financial malpractice.
2 to say firmly and directly, or prove, that something is not true:
A lawyer for the bank's CEO said he had been given too little time to rebut the report's conclusions ahead of a board vote later this week.
A leading UK supermarket has strenuously rebutted allegations that it exerts a monopoly over the UK's £124bn grocery market.
Economists at the World Bank are rebutting claims that globalization hurts the poor.
The Government is attempting to rebut continuing criticism about the weight of red tape.
Both these criticisms can effectively be rebutted by specifying a felicitous feature of the universe other than fitness for humanity.
To rebut their clarity hypothesis it was enough to show that there was not more economic voting in the 'extra high' sample.
R is for the arguments that are not subject to rebutting.
And, to rebut the argument about the burden of expectation, he relies on our ready acceptance of identical twins.
The foregoing arguments are offered to rebut any suggestion that, before 1965 at any rate, published data favoured the causal rather than the artifact hypothesis.
In particular, it does not rebut the simple thought that law-making institutions (as such) are as important to the legal system as courts (as such).
If someone presents a rebutting defeater against theism, one can respond by either rebutting or undercutting the alleged defeater.
How does the duty of respect help us rebut the straight-to-morality assumption?
