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rebuff

English

  1. 🔊 a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval)
  2. 🔊 an instance of driving away or warding off
  3. 🔊 reject outright and bluntly
    “She snubbed his proposal”
  4. 🔊 force or drive back
    “repel the attacker”

Similar words

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