Rebuked vs Rebused - What's the difference?
rebuked | rebused |
(rebuke)
A harsh criticism.
* 2012 , July 15. Richard Williams in Guardian Unlimited,
To criticise harshly; to reprove.
(rebus)
A kind of word puzzle which uses pictures to represent words or parts of words.
(heraldry) A pictorial suggestion on a coat of arms of the name of the person to whom it belongs.
To mark or indicate by a rebus.
* Fuller
As verbs the difference between rebuked and rebused
is that rebuked is (rebuke) while rebused is (rebus).rebuked
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Verb
(head)rebuke
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Noun
(en noun)Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track
- There was the sternness of an old-fashioned Tour patron in his rebuke to the young Frenchman Pierre Rolland, the only one to ride away from the peloton and seize the opportunity for a lone attack before being absorbed back into the bunch, where he was received with coolness.
Verb
(rebuk)Synonyms
* See alsorebused
English
Verb
(head)rebus
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Noun
(wikipedia rebus) (es)Verb
- He [John Morton] had a fair library rebused with More in text and Tun under it.