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re-buff
noun as in knock
noun as in put down
noun as in rebuff
noun as in rebuke
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in refusal
Strong matches
noun as in rejection
noun as in renunciation
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in repulse
noun as in repulsion
noun as in resistance
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in setback
noun as in barb
noun as in slight
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in thumbs-down
noun as in check
noun as in imperviousness
Strong matches
noun as in insusceptibility
Weak matches
- battle
- blocking
- check
- combat
- contention
- counteraction
- cover
- defiance
- detention
- fight
- friction
- halting
- hindrance
- holding
- immunity
- impedance
- impediment
- impeding
- imperviousness
- intransigence
- obstruction
- parrying
- protecting
- protection
- rebuff
- refusal
- retardation
- safeguard
- screen
- shield
- stand
- striking back
- struggle
- support
- unsusceptibility
- warding off
- watch
- withstanding
noun as in licking
Strongest match
Strong matches
- ambush
- annihilation
- beating
- blow
- break
- breakdown
- check
- collapse
- conquest
- count
- debacle
- destruction
- discomfiture
- drubbing
- embarrassment
- extermination
- failure
- fall
- killing
- KO
- lacing
- loss
- massacre
- mastery
- overthrow
- paddling
- rebuff
- repulse
- reverse
- rout
- ruin
- scalping
- setback
- shellacking
- slaughter
- subjugation
- thrashing
- trap
- trashing
- trimming
- triumph
- trouncing
- waxing
- whaling
- whitewashing
noun as in quitclaim
Strong matches
noun as in relinquishment
Strong matches
noun as in renitence
Weak matches
- battle
- blocking
- check
- combat
- contention
- counteraction
- cover
- defiance
- detention
- fight
- friction
- halting
- hindrance
- holding
- impedance
- impediment
- impeding
- intransigence
- obstruction
- opposition
- parrying
- protecting
- protection
- rebuff
- refusal
- renitency
- retardation
- safeguard
- screen
- shield
- stand
- striking back
- struggle
- support
- warding off
- watch
- withstanding
noun as in renitency
Weak matches
- battle
- blocking
- check
- combat
- contention
- counteraction
- cover
- defiance
- detention
- fight
- friction
- halting
- hindrance
- holding
- impedance
- impediment
- impeding
- intransigence
- obstruction
- opposition
- parrying
- protecting
- protection
- rebuff
- refusal
- renitence
- retardation
- safeguard
- screen
- shield
- stand
- striking back
- struggle
- support
- warding off
- watch
- withstanding
noun as in thrashing
Strong matches
noun as in traversal
Strong matches
noun as in turndown
Strong matches
- abnegation
- ban
- choice
- declension
- declination
- defiance
- denial
- disapproval
- disavowal
- disclaimer
- disfavor
- dissent
- enjoinment
- exclusion
- forbidding
- interdiction
- negation
- nix
- no
- nonacceptance
- noncompliance
- option
- pass
- prohibition
- proscription
- rebuff
- refutation
- regrets
- rejection
- renouncement
- renunciation
- repudiation
- repulse
- repulsion
- reversal
- veto
- withholding
- writ
noun as in vanquishment
Weak matches
- ambush
- annihilation
- beating
- blow
- break
- breakdown
- check
- collapse
- conquest
- count
- debacle
- defeasance
- destruction
- discomfiture
- downthrow
- drubbing
- embarrassment
- extermination
- failure
- fall
- insuccess
- killing
- KO
- lacing
- licking
- loss
- massacre
- mastery
- nonsuccess
- overthrow
- paddling
- rebuff
- repulse
- reverse
- rout
- ruin
- scalping
- setback
- shellacking
- slaughter
- subjugation
- thrashing
- trap
- trashing
- trimming
- triumph
- trouncing
- waxing
- whaling
- whipping
- whitewashing
noun as in defeat
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in defeat
noun as in denial
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in discouragement
verb as in neglect
Strong matches
verb as in parry
verb as in pooh-pooh
verb as in rebuff
Strongest matches
verb as in refuse
Strong matches
verb as in reject
Strong matches
verb as in repel
Strong matches
verb as in repulse
verb as in repulse
verb as in snub
Strong matches
verb as in spurn
verb as in turn down
verb as in ward/ward off
verb as in brush off
verb as in brush aside/brush off
verb as in stonewall
Strongest match
Strong matches
verb as in censure
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in check
Strong matches
verb as in deny
Strong matches
verb as in disallow
verb as in fend off
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On this page you'll find 2085 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to re-buff, such as: blame, censure, condemnation, defeat, failure, and flak.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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