rebuff

Speech parts

1. rebuff - Noun

2. rebuff - Verb

Meaning

Repercussion, or beating back; a quick and sudden resistance.

Sudden check; unexpected repulse; defeat; refusal; repellence; rejection of solicitation.

To beat back; to offer sudden resistance to; to check; to repel or repulse violently, harshly, or uncourteously.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

repulse slight repel snub fight off drive back coventry parry counteraction cut buck shun decline check resist
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Antonyms

back support allow bear agreement accept
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Hypernyms

fight defend reject offense rejection oppose

Hyponyms

cut snub silent treatment

Derivatives

rebuffed rebuffing

Anagrams

buffer

Examples

Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go Be our joys three-parts pain Strive, and hold cheap the strain Learn, nor account the pang dare, never grudge the throe. Robert Browning

When I compare myself, my being-myself, with anything else whatever, all things alike, all in the same degree, rebuff me with blank unlikeness. Gerard Manley Hopkins

I am not a perfect friend, and it is impossible not to rebuff or be rebuffed if you move about the world. Anne Roiphe

Only now do I understand the harm done our nation's best interests by the rebuff administered to Poincaré's policy in 1924. Raymond Poincaré

repel the attacker Source: Internet

fight off the onslaught Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

rebucous rebud rebudget rebuffable rebuffer rebuffering