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Repeal vs Rebut - What's the difference?

repeal | rebut |

As verbs the difference between repeal and rebut

is that repeal is to cancel, invalidate, annul while rebut is to drive back or beat back; to repulse.

As a noun repeal

is an act or instance of repealing.

repeal

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To cancel, invalidate, annul.
    • to repeal a law
  • To recall; to summon (a person) again.
  • * Shakespeare
    • The banished Bolingbroke repeals himself, / And with uplifted arms is safe arrived.
  • To suppress; to repel.
  • * Milton
    • Whence Adam soon repealed / The doubts that in his heart arose.

    Synonyms

    * annul, cancel, invalidate, revoke, veto

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act or instance of repealing.

    • Anagrams

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    rebut

    English

    Verb

    (rebutt)
  • To drive back or beat back; to repulse.
  • * Spenser
    • Who him, recount'ring fierce, as hawk in flight, / Perforce rebutted back.
  • (senseid)To deny the truth of something, especially by presenting arguments that disprove it.

    • Derived terms

    * rebuttal * rebutter

    References

    * " rebut, v. " listed in the Oxford English Dictionary (second edition, 1989)

    Anagrams

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