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rebuff (verb), rebuffs; rebuffed; rebuffing
1. To suddenly hinder someone from making advances, offers to help, or to request something, etc. in a rude way: Workers rebuffed the supervisor's plan for building the apartment complex in a different way than was standard practice.

Karen rebuffed Frank when he asked her for a date.

2. Etymology: from Latin re-, "back" + buffo, "a puff, a snub."
To refuse in a sharp way.
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