Synonyms of the word

rebuff

• n. A sudden resistance or refusal.
• n. Repercussion, or beating back.
• v. To refuse; to offer sudden or harsh resistance; to turn down or shut out.
• v. To buff again.

defend

• v. (transitive, obsolete) To ward off, repel (an attack or attacker).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To prevent, to keep (from doing something).
• v. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To prohibit, forbid.
• v. (transitive) To ward off attacks from; to fight to protect; to guard.
• v. (transitive) To support by words or writing; to vindicate, talk in favour of.
• v. (transitive, law) To make legal defence of; to represent (the accused).
• v. (sports) To focus one's energies and talents on preventing opponents from scoring, as opposed to focusing…
• v. (sports) To attempt to retain a title, or attempt to reach the same stage in a competition as one did…
• v. (poker slang) To call a raise from the big blind.

discourtesy

• n. Lack of courtesy; rudeness.
• n. A rude act.

disdain

• n. (uncountable) A feeling of contempt or scorn.
• n. (obsolete) That which is worthy to be disdained or regarded with contempt and aversion.
• n. (obsolete) The state of being despised; shame.
• v. (transitive) To regard (someone or something) with strong contempt.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be indignant or offended.

fight

• v. (intransitive) To contend in physical conflict, either singly or in war, battle etc.
• v. (intransitive) To strive for; to campaign or contend for success.
• v. (transitive) To conduct or engage in (battle, warfare etc.).
• v. (transitive) To engage in combat with; to oppose physically, to contest with.
• v. (transitive) To try to overpower; to fiercely counteract.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To cause to fight; to manage or manoeuvre in a fight.
• n. An occasion of fighting.
• n. (archaic) A battle between opposing armies.
• n. A physical confrontation or combat between two or more people or groups.
• n. (sports) A boxing or martial arts match.
• n. A conflict, possibly nonphysical, with opposing ideas or forces; strife.
• n. The will or ability to fight.
• n. (obsolete) A screen for the combatants in ships.

offence

• n. British spelling standard spelling of offense.

offense

• n. The act of offending.
• n. The state of being offended or displeased; anger; displeasure.
• n. (team sports) (often /ˈɒ fɛns/) A strategy and tactics employed when in position to score; contrasted…
• n. (team sports) (often /ˈɒ fɛns/) The portion of a team dedicated to scoring when in position to do so;…

oppose

• v. To attempt to stop the progression of; to resist or antagonize by physical means, or by arguments, etc…
• v. To object to.
• v. To present or set up in opposition; to pose.
• v. To place in front of, or over against; to set opposite; to exhibit.
• v. To compete with; to strive against.

pooh-pooh

• v. (transitive) To dismiss idly with contempt or derision.

reject

• v. (transitive) To refuse to accept.
• v. (basketball) To block a shot, especially if it sends the ball off the court.
• n. Something that is rejected.
• n. (derogatory slang) An unpopular person.

rejection

• n. The act of rejecting.
• n. The state of being rejected.
• n. (sports) A blocked shot.

repel

• v. (now rare) To turn (someone) away from a privilege, right, job, etc.
• v. To reject, put off (a request, demand etc.).
• v. To ward off (a malignant influence, attack etc.).
• v. To drive back (an assailant, advancing force etc.).
• v. (physics) To force away by means of a repulsive force.
• v. To cause repulsion, cause dislike.
• v. (transitive, sports) To save (a shot).

repulse

• v. to repel or drive back.
• v. to reject or rebuff.
• v. to cause revulsion.
• n. the act of repulsing or the state of being repulsed.
• n. refusal, rejection or repulsion.

scorn

• v. (transitive) To feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.
• v. (intransitive) To scoff, express contempt.
• v. (transitive) To reject, turn down.
• v. (transitive) To refuse to do something, as beneath oneself.
• n. (uncountable) Contempt or disdain.
• n. (countable) A display of disdain; a slight.
• n. (countable) An object of disdain, contempt, or derision.

slight

• adj. Small in amount, gentle, or weak,; not decidedly marked; not forcible; inconsiderable; unimportant; insignificant;…
• adj. Not stout or heavy; slender.
• adj. (regional) Even, smooth or level; still (of the sea).
• adj. (obsolete) Foolish; silly; weak in intellect.
• adj. (regional, obsolete) Bad, of poor quality (as, goods).
• v. To treat as slight or not worthy of attention; to make light of.
• v. To treat with disdain or neglect, usually out of prejudice, hatred, or jealousy; to ignore disrespectfully.
• v. To act negligently or carelessly.
• v. (military, of a fortification) To render no longer defensible by full or partial demolition.
• v. To make even or level.
• v. To throw heedlessly.
• n. The act of slighting; a deliberate act of neglect or discourtesy.
• n. (obsolete) Sleight.

snub

• adj. Conspicuously short.
• adj. (mathematics, of a polyhedron) Derived from a simpler polyhedron by the addition of extra triangular faces.
• n. A deliberate affront or slight.
• n. A sudden checking of a cable or rope.
• n. (obsolete) A knot; a protuberance; a snag.
• v. (transitive) To slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone.
• v. (transitive) To turn down; to dismiss.
• v. (transitive) To stub out (a cigarette etc).
• v. (transitive) To halt the movement of a rope etc by turning it about a cleat or bollard etc; to secure…
• v. (transitive) To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of.
• v. To sob with convulsions.

spurn

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To reject disdainfully; contemn; scorn.
• v. (transitive) To reject something by pushing it away with the foot.
• v. (transitive) To waste; fail to make the most of (an opportunity).
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To kick or toss up the heels.
• n. An act of spurning; a scornful rejection.
• n. A kick; a blow with the foot.
• n. (obsolete) Disdainful rejection; contemptuous treatment.
• n. A body of coal left to sustain an overhanging mass.