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rebuter

French, verb/ʁə.by.te/

rebuter is a French verb meaning “to reject; turn down” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rejeter ou repousser avec dureté, avec rudesse”.

What does rebuter mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to reject; turn down

  2. 2

    to send someone packing; to kick to the curb

  3. 3

    to disgust; to put off

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Rejeter ou repousser avec dureté, avec rudesse. 2. Décourager ou dégoûter par des obstacles, par des difficultés, etc. 3. Choquer ; déplaire. 4. Mettre au rebut : jeter, éliminer une pièce non conforme en production, si une reprise ou réparation n’est pas jugée raisonnable.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of rebuter

  • avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
  • rebutant gerund participle present
  • ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
  • rebuté participle past
  • rebute first-person indicative present
  • rebutes indicative present second-person
  • rebutons first-person indicative plural
  • rebutez indicative plural present
  • rebutent indicative plural present
  • rebutais first-person imperfect indicative
  • rebutait imperfect indicative singular
  • rebutions first-person imperfect indicative
  • rebutiez imperfect indicative plural
  • rebutaient imperfect indicative plural
  • rebutai first-person historic indicative
  • rebutas historic indicative past
  • rebuta historic indicative past
  • rebutâmes first-person historic indicative

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce rebuter?

  • /ʁə.by.te/
  • \ʁə.by.te\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to rebuter

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is rebuter in French?

rebuter appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).