different between facilitate vs rebut

English

Etymology

From French faciliter, from Latin facilis

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??s?l?te?t/, /f??s?l?te?t/

Verb

facilitate (third-person singular simple present facilitates, present participle facilitating, simple past and past participle facilitated)

1. To make easy or easier.
2. To help bring about.
3. To preside over (a meeting, a seminar).

Synonyms

• (to make easy or easier): ease

Related terms

Translations

Italian

Verb

facilitate

1. second-person plural present indicative of facilitare
2. second-person plural imperative of facilitare
3. feminine plural of facilitato

Anagrams

• felicitata

Latin

Noun

facilit?te

1. ablative singular of facilit?s

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin facilitas through French facilité

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [fat?ili?tate]

Noun

facilitate f (plural facilit??i)

1. facility

Declension

English

Etymology

Entered English around 1302–1307, from Old French reboter, rebuter, rebouter, etc., from re- + boter, buter, bouter (“to butt”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??.?b?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Verb

rebut (third-person singular simple present rebuts, present participle rebutting, simple past and past participle rebutted)

1. To drive back or beat back; to repulse.
3. To deny the truth of something, especially by presenting arguments that disprove it.

Usage notes

• See refute.

Derived terms

Translations

References

• "rebut, v." listed in the Oxford English Dictionary (second edition, 1989)

Anagrams

• Ubert, brute, buret, tuber

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /r??but/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /re?but/
• Rhymes: -ut

Noun

rebut m (plural rebuts)

1. receipt (acknowledgement that something has been received)

   Synonym: rebuda

Verb

rebut m (feminine rebuda, masculine plural rebuts, feminine plural rebudes)

1. past participle of rebre

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.by/

Verb

rebut

1. third-person singular past historic of reboire

Noun

rebut m (plural rebuts)

1. (archaic) casting-off, throwing-away
2. cast-off; scrap, rubbish
3. scum, dreg
4. dead letter

Further reading

• “rebut” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• brute, buter, tuber