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rebuttal
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun rebuttal has 2 senses
- rebuttal(n = noun.communication) Array - the speech act of refuting by offering a contrary contention or argument; Array is a kind of defence, defense, refutation
- rebuttal(n = noun.communication) rebutter - (law) a pleading by the defendant in reply to a plaintiff's surrejoinder; Array is a kind of pleading
Derived form verb rebut1
CIDE DICTIONARY
rebuttal, n.
The giving of evidence on the part of a plaintiff to destroy the effect of evidence introduced by the defendant in the same suit. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
rebuttal
answer, argument, bucking, challenge, comeback, complete answer, confounding, confutation, contention, contradiction, contraposition, contraremonstrance, contravention, contraversion, controversion, counteraccusation, counteraction, counterblast, countercharge, counterclaim, counterreply, counterstatement, counterworking, crosscurrent, crossing, defense, demolition, demurrer, denial, discrediting, effective rejoinder, exception, head wind, impugnation, impugnment, negation, objection, opposing, opposition, opposure, oppugnation, overthrow, overthrowal, plea, pleading, pleadings, rebutment, rebutter, refusal, refutal, refutation, rejection, rejoinder, replication, reply, resistance, response, retaliation, retort, riposte, special demurrer, special pleading, squelch, standing against, statement of defense, subversion, surrebuttal, surrebutter, surrejoinder, traversal, undercurrent, undermining, upset, upsetting
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