Synonym: deny, disclaim, disdain, disown, reject, renounce, repudiate, scorn, snub, spurn. Similar words: buffer, rebut, rebuke, rebuild, none but, debut, rebel, thereby. Meaning: [rɪ'bʌf] 
n. 1. a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval) 2. an instance of driving away or warding off. v. 1. reject outright and bluntly 2. force or drive back.
n. 1. a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval) 2. an instance of driving away or warding off. v. 1. reject outright and bluntly 2. force or drive back. 
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31. Rule persisted with a blink at the rebuff.
32. Cumulatively these transcribed minutes help us to see the gradual changes in policy when both sides were willing to risk rebuff.
33. He would rebuff enquiries in such a way as to preclude any further discussion.
34. Having made this rash remark, he braced himself for a polite rebuff.
35. His reaction was as much of a rebuff as a physical recoil.
36. She almost trembled at the audacity which might have carried her on to a terrible rebuff.
37. Fleur, still smarting from Jon's rebuff, established a country rest home for working girls.
38. If you never fear a rebuff you will never have one.
39. Her kindness to him is meeting with a cruel rebuff.
More similar words: buffer, rebut, rebuke, rebuild, none but, debut, rebel, thereby, debunk, forebode, guff, cerebrum, cerebral, stuff, bluff, nebulous, fluffy, duffer, ebullient, debugging, rebellious, suffice, muffled, suffrage, handcuffs, sufficient, suffer from, sufficiency, take the bull by the horns.