How to pronounce“rebuff”in English
blew through his nose so loudly that you might say he roared and still stared my poor father out of the room I have seen him ringing his hands after such a
rebuff and I am sure the annoyance and the terror he lived in must have greatly hastened his early and unhappy death all the time he lived with us the
captain made no change whatever in his dress but to buy some stockings from a hawker one of the of his hat having fallen down he let it hang from
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Definitions of “rebuff”
A sudden resistance or refusal.
“He was surprised by her quick rebuff to his proposal.”
Repercussion, or beating back.
“the strong rebuff of some tumultuous cloud”
To refuse; to offer sudden or harsh resistance; to turn down or shut out.
“The plaque (2014) doesn't tell you that Leonard [Woolf] had initially been rebuffed. His intended proposal was refused by Virginia [Woolf to be], who then had a change of heart.”
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