Rebut

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vt To drive or beat back; to Repulse.

II. Rebut ·vi To make, or put in, an answer, as to a plaintiff's surrejoinder.

III. Rebut ·vi To Retire; to Recoil.

IV. Rebut ·vt To contradict, meet, or oppose by argument, plea, or countervailing proof.