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rebuff

verb

his offer was immediately rebuffed |

she rebuffed the prince on several occasions:

reject, turn down, spurn, refuse, decline, repudiate, disdain;

snub, slight, repulse, repel, dismiss, brush off, turn one's back on;

give someone the cold shoulder, cold-shoulder, ignore, cut (dead), look right through;

informal give someone the brush-off, tell someone where to get off, put down, freeze out, stiff-arm;

British, informal knock back;

North American, informal give someone the bum's rush, give someone the brush;

Australian, informal snout;

informal , dated give someone the go-by.

▷antonyms accept, welcome.

noun

the rebuff did little to dampen his ardour:

rejection, snub, slight, repulse, cut;

refusal, spurning, repudiation, repulsion, cold-shouldering, discouragement;

informal brush-off, knock-back, put-down, kick in the teeth, slap in the face, smack in the face, smack in the eye.

rebuff Oxford Dictionary of English