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<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>DICTIONARY: rebel - rebutter</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <A HREF="a.dic">A</A> <A HREF="b.dic">B</A> <A HREF="c.dic">C</A> <A HREF="d.dic">D</A> <A HREF="e.dic">E</A> <A HREF="f.dic">F</A> <A HREF="g.dic">G</A> <A HREF="h.dic">H</A> <A HREF="i.dic">I</A> <A HREF="j.dic">J</A> <A HREF="k.dic">K</A> <A HREF="l.dic">L</A> <A HREF="m.dic">M</A> <A HREF="n.dic">N</A> <A HREF="o.dic">O</A> <A HREF="p.dic">P</A> <A HREF="q.dic">Q</A> <A HREF="r.dic">R</A> <A HREF="s.dic">S</A> <A HREF="t.dic">T</A> <A HREF="u.dic">U</A> <A HREF="v.dic">V</A> <A HREF="w.dic">W</A> <A HREF="x.dic">X</A> <A HREF="y.dic">Y</A> <A HREF="z.dic">Z</A> <A NAME="rebel"> rebel, noun, adjective, verb, rebelled, rebelling.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. a person who resists or fights against authority instead of obeying. Ex. The rebels armed themselves against the government. (SYN) insurgent. <DD> 2. Also, Rebel. (U.S. Historical.) a Confederate, especially a Confederate soldier. Ex. The Rebels are reported to have ordered an entire fleet from French builders (New Mexican Review). <DD>adj. 1. defying law or authority. Ex. a rebel army. <DD> 2. Also, Rebel. (U.S. Historical.) Confederate. Ex. the Rebel flag. <DD>v.i. 1. to resist or fight against law or authority. Ex. The harassed soldiers decided to rebel. (SYN) revolt, mutiny. <DD> 2. (Figurative.) to feel a great dislike or opposition. Ex. We rebelled at having to stay in on so fine a day. noun rebeller. </DL> <A NAME="rebeldom"> rebeldom, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a region controlled by rebels. <DD> 2. rebels as a group. <DD> 3. =rebellion. </DL> <A NAME="rebellion"> rebellion, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a fight against one's government. Ex. The American colonists were in rebellion against the British king. (SYN) insurrection, revolution, sedition. <DD> 2. resistance against any power or restriction. Ex. The slaves rose in rebellion against their masters. <DD> 3. the act or condition of rebelling; revolt. </DL> <A NAME="rebellious"> rebellious, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. defying authority; acting like a rebel; rebelling. Ex. a rebellious army. (SYN) mutinous. <DD> 2. (Figurative.) hard to manage; hard to treat. Ex. The rebellious boy would not obey the rules. (SYN) disobedient. adv. rebelliously. noun rebelliousness. </DL> <A NAME="rebelyell"> rebel yell,<DL COMPACT><DD> a long, shrill yell given by Confederate soldiers while going into battle in the U.S. Civil War. </DL> <A NAME="rebid"> rebid, verb, -bid, -bidding, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>v.t. to bid again. Ex. Possibly he should have ... rebid one of his suits (London Times). <DD>noun a subsequent bid made by a player. Ex. The two no-trump was a demand for a rebid. </DL> <A NAME="rebill"> rebill, transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to bill again. </DL> <A NAME="rebind"> rebind, transitive verb, -bound, -binding.<DL COMPACT><DD> to bind again or anew. Ex. The book with the broken back needs rebinding. </DL> <A NAME="rebirth"> rebirth, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a new birth; being born again. <DD> 2. the act or process of reviving; coming back into existence or into a former condition, as of strength or power. Ex. (Figurative.) a rebirth of confidence, (Figurative.) a rebirth of national pride. </DL> <A NAME="reblock"> reblock, transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. to provide with new block or a new block. <DD> 2. to remold. Ex. to reblock a hat. </DL> <A NAME="rebloom"> rebloom, intransitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to bloom again. </DL> <A NAME="reblossom"> reblossom, intransitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to blossom again. </DL> <A NAME="reboant"> reboant, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> resounding loudly. Ex. The echoing dance Of reboant whirlwinds (Tennyson). </DL> <A NAME="reboil"> reboil, transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to cause to boil again; subject again to boiling. </DL> <A NAME="reboisement"> reboisement, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a conversion into woodland; reforestation. </DL> <A NAME="rebop"> rebop, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Slang.) bebop. </DL> <A NAME="reborn"> reborn, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> born again. </DL> <A NAME="reboso"> reboso, noun, pl. -sos. =rebozo.</DL> <A NAME="rebound"> rebound (1), verb, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>v.i. 1. to spring back. Ex. I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds (Samuel Johnson). (Figurative.) An evil example, that would rebound back on themselves (Edmund Burke). (SYN) recoil. <DD> 2. =resound. <DD> 3. to get back to a good condition; bounce back; recover. Ex. Government securities rebounded yesterday after a week of steady declines (Wall Street Journal). <DD> 4. (Archaic.) to leap; spring. <DD>v.t. 1. to cause to spring back. <DD> 2. to echo back. <DD>noun 1. the act or process of springing back; rebounding. Ex. You hit the ball on the rebound in handball. (Figurative.) a rebound from a state of depression and shame (John F. D. Maurice). <DD> 2. (Basketball.) a ball that bounds back off the backboard or the rim of the basket after a shot has been made. expr. on the rebound, in reaction to or as a result of the abrupt ending of a love affair. Ex. to become engaged on the rebound. [He] had been interested in another girl altogether, and he had married this one on the rebound (New Yorker). </DL> <A NAME="rebound"> rebound (2), verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> the past tense and past participle of rebind. Ex. Send this book to be rebound. </DL> <A NAME="rebounder"> rebounder, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a basketball player skilled at catching and controlling a ball that rebounds from the backboard. Ex. Brannum was the top rebounder of the contest with 13, one more than Gallatin (New York Times). </DL> <A NAME="rebozo"> rebozo, noun, pl. -zos.<DL COMPACT><DD> a shawl or long scarf worn by Spanish-American women over the head and shoulders. </DL> <A NAME="rebreathe"> rebreathe, transitive verb, -breathed, -breathing.<DL COMPACT><DD> to breathe again. </DL> <A NAME="rebreathingdevice"> rebreathing device,<DL COMPACT><DD> an underwater diving device that repurifies the diver's exhaled air to breathe again. </DL> <A NAME="rebroadcast"> rebroadcast, verb, -cast or -casted, -casting, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>v.t., v.i. 1. to broadcast again or anew. Ex. His radio messages ... are now translated and rebroadcast (Newsweek). <DD> 2. to relay by broadcast (messages, speeches, or music, received from a broadcasting station). <DD>noun a program, message, or the like, rebroadcast. Ex. Rebroadcasts of earlier Playhouse 90 productions on tape and film were to follow (New Yorker). </DL> <A NAME="rebuff"> rebuff, noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun a blunt or sudden check to a person who makes advances, offers help, or makes a request; snub. Ex. We tried to be friendly, but his rebuff made us think he wanted to be left alone. <DD>v.t. to give a rebuff to. Ex. The playful dog was rebuffed by a kick. (SYN) check. </DL> <A NAME="rebuild"> rebuild, verb, -built, -building, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>v.t., v.i. to build again or anew. Ex. They [children] are building new bone while adults are simply rebuilding some of their skeleton (Newsweek). When the Company proceeded to rebuild, they no longer did so in the massive and imposing style of the fourteenth century (M. Pattison). <DD>noun an act or instance of rebuilding. Ex. A complete Bentley rebuild will cost at least £4,000 (Sunday Times). noun rebuilder. </DL> <A NAME="rebuilt"> rebuilt, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> the past tense and past participle of rebuild. Ex. The damaged section of the school was entirely rebuilt. </DL> <A NAME="rebukable"> rebukable, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> deserving of rebuke. </DL> <A NAME="rebuke"> rebuke, verb, -buked, -buking, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>v.t. 1. to express disapproval of; reprove. Ex. The teacher rebuked the child for throwing paper on the floor. (SYN) reprimand, censure. <DD> 2. (Obsolete.) to repress; check. Ex. Under him My genius is rebuk'd: as, it is said, Mark Antony's was by Caesar (Shakespeare). <DD>noun an expression of disapproval; scolding. Ex. The child feared the teacher's rebuke. noun rebuker. adv. rebukingly. </DL> <A NAME="rebukeful"> rebukeful, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> full of rebuke; of a rebuking character, as words. </DL> <A NAME="rebunker"> rebunker, intransitive verb, transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to refill the bunkers with coal; coal again. </DL> <A NAME="rebury"> rebury, transitive verb, -buried, -burying.<DL COMPACT><DD> to bury again. Ex. Reburied hastily at dead of night (Thomas Carlyle). </DL> <A NAME="rebus"> rebus, noun, pl. -buses.<DL COMPACT><DD> a representation of a word or phrase by pictures, letters, numbers, or combinations of these to suggest the syllables or words. A picture of a cat on a log is a rebus for "catalog." A picture of an eye, followed by "CA" and a picture of a dog, may be a rebus for "I see a dog." </DL> <A NAME="rebussicstantibus"> rebus sic stantibus,<DL COMPACT><DD> (Latin.) things remaining the same. Ex. There is a legal principle which holds that even the most solemnly recorded agreements are to be valid only for as long as they were intended to be valid--rebus sic stantibus, or while circumstances remain the same (New Yorker). </DL> <A NAME="rebut"> rebut, transitive verb, -butted, -butting.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. to oppose by evidence on the other side or by argument; try to disprove. Ex. to rebut the arguments of the other team in a debate. (SYN) refute, contradict, dispute. <DD> 2. (Obsolete.) to repel; repulse. </DL> <A NAME="rebuttable"> rebuttable, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that can be rebutted; subject to rebuttal. </DL> <A NAME="rebuttal"> rebuttal, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the act or process of rebutting. Ex. The State Department issued a 2,700-word rebuttal, complete with texts of proposals and counterproposals (Newsweek). </DL> <A NAME="rebutter"> rebutter (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a person who rebuts. <DD> 2. an argument that rebuts. </DL> <A NAME="rebutter"> rebutter (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Law.) an answer such as a defendant makes to a plaintiff's surrejoinder. </DL> <A HREF="rec.dic">NEXT</A>