Definitions for rebuke

rebuke re·buke

Spelling: [ri-byook]
IPA: /rɪˈbyuk/

Rebuke is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 52 anagrams from letters in rebuke (beekru).

Definitions for rebuke

noun

  1. sharp, stern disapproval; reproof; reprimand.

verb (used with object)

  1. to express sharp, stern disapproval of; reprove; reprimand.

Origin of rebuke

1275-1325; Middle English rebuken (v.) Anglo-French rebuker (Old French rebuchier) to beat back, equivalent to re- re- + bucher to beat, strike Germanic

Examples for rebuke

They darted from Garson to the other three men, and back again in rebuke.

Instead they were a rebuke from the American electorate to Democrats who had overreached.

And, of course, a rebuke to our current politics and especially our president, who seems unable to prod a bee to buzz.

What made matters worse was that the more I felt Lorne rebuke me, the more I pulled away.

As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

Then, he bethought himself of a subtle form of rebuke by emphasizing his generosity.

“Ordinary people will think he is disturbed and rebuke him for this, unaware that he is possessed by a god,” Plato wrote.

This cover, I submit, is as sharp a rebuke to the “progress is over!”

Times before had he said them before Phoebe Hart, and she had passed them by with no rebuke.

Aggie sniffed vehemently in rebuke of the gross partiality of fate in his behalf.

Word Value for rebuke
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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