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rebuke, v. 1. reprove, reproach, reprehend, reprimand, remonstrate with; chide, Inf. take to task, find fault with; scold, lecture, censure, call down, Inf. call on the carpet, Inf. dress down, Inf. bawl out, exprobate, objurgate; admonish, give a piece of one's mind, Inf. tell [s.o.] a thing or two, Inf tell [s.o.] off, take [s.o.] down a peg.
2. berate, upbraid, castigate, vituperate; flay, SI. give [s.o.] the business, rake [s.o.] over the coals, keelhaul; let [s.o.] have it, let [s.o.] have it right between the eyes, let [s.o.] have it with both barrels, tell [s.o.] where to get off; All. SI. blast, bawl out, yell at, give [s.o.] hell, lay [s.o.] out in lavender, read the riot act. -n. 3. reproach, remonstration, reproof, reprimand; lecture, Inf. a word to the wise, stricture; expostulation, berating, upbraiding, castigation, objurgation, vituperation, censure; scolding, dressing down, tongue-lashing, SI. hell, Inf. bawling, admonishment.
4. blame, accusation, accusal, charge; imputation, incrimination, inculpation, Inf. pointing the finger.
rebut, v. refute, disprove, invalidate, negate, deny; confute, controvert, contradict, prove to be false, prove to the contrary; discredit, belie, deny the efficacy of, give the lie to; expose, show up, show the fallacy of, expose the weak points of; explode, Inf. blow sky-high, puncture, Inf. shoot full of holes, Inf. knock the bottom out of; defeat, overturn, overthrow, throw out, Inf. scuttle, squash, Inf. squelch, Inf put the kibosh on, Inf shoot down; answer, retort, parry, retaliate, Inf. come back, riposte.
rebuttal, n. retort, response, answer; counter-argument, counter-statement, formal disproof; parry, riposte, retaliation, Inf. comeback; refutation, denial, disproval, disproof; confutation, contradiction, invalidation, negation; discreditation, giving the lie to, exposing, showing up, puncturing.
recalcitrant, adj. refractory, unmanageable, unsubmissive, intractable, contumacious, disobedient, insubordinate, difficult; fractious, rebellious, mutinous, unruly; headstrong, willfull, pervicacious, strong-willed, defiant, wayward; perverse, contrary, oppugnant, obstinate, bullheaded, stubborn, pig-headed, mulish; obdurate, unyielding, unbending, inflexible, rigid, crossgrained, immovable, Inf. cussed, flinty, stony; opposed, resistant, renitent.
recall, v. 1. recollect, remember, reminisce, muse, look back on, think back to, Literary, hark back; call to mind, review, retrace; recognize, place; commemorate; call up, evoke.
2. call back, summon; encore, applaud.
3. revoke, take back, withdraw, retract; countermand, repeal, rescind, veto, overrule, override; annul, nullify, cancel; recant, abjure, disavow, disown, disclaim, deny.
4. revive, revivify, bring back, renew.
recant, v. 1. retract, withdraw, recall, revoke, repeal, reverse; rescind, abrogate, annul, nullify, disannul, void, avoid; countermand, counterorder, overrule, override; veto, negate.
2. disavow, disclaim, disown, deny; renounce, relinquish, repudiate, abjure, forswear, abnegate; unsay, go back on one's word, take back, eat one's words, back-pedal, renege; apostatize, defect, tergiversate, change one's mind.
recantation, n. 1. retraction, palinode, withdrawal, recall, revocation, repeal, reversal; rescinding, rescindment, rescission, abrogation, annulment, nullification, disannulment, voidance, avoidance, Law. defeasance; countermand, counterorder, overruling, overriding; veto, negation.
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