| rebarbative | (adjective) serving or tending to repel | Synonyms: repellant, repellent |
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| rebate | (noun) a rectangular groove made to hold two pieces together | Synonyms: rabbet |
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| (noun) a refund of some fraction of the amount paid | Synonyms: discount |
| (verb) cut a rebate in (timber or stone) | - |
| (verb) join with a rebate | - |
| (verb) give a reduction in the price during a sale | - |
| rebato | (noun) a wired or starched collar of intricate lace; worn in 17th century | Synonyms: rabato |
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| rebel | (noun) a person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving conditions) | Synonyms: freedom fighter, insurgent, insurrectionist |
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| (noun) someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action | Synonyms: maverick |
| (verb) take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance | Synonyms: arise, rise, rise up |
| (verb) break with established customs | Synonyms: renegade |
| rebellion | (noun) organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another | Synonyms: insurrection, revolt, rising, uprising |
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| (noun) refusal to accept some authority or code or convention | - |
| rebellious | (adjective) discontented as toward authority | Synonyms: disaffected, ill-affected, malcontent |
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| (adjective) participating in organized resistance to a constituted government | - |
| (adjective) resisting control or authority | - |
| rebelliously | (adverb) in a rebellious manner | Synonyms: contumaciously, defiantly |
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| rebelliousness | (noun) an insubordinate act | Synonyms: insubordination |
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| (noun) intentionally contemptuous behavior or attitude | Synonyms: defiance |
| rebind | (verb) provide with a new binding | - |
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| rebirth | (noun) a spiritual enlightenment causing a person to lead a new life | Synonyms: conversion, spiritual rebirth |
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| (noun) the revival of learning and culture | Synonyms: Renaissance, Renascence |
| (noun) a second or new birth | Synonyms: reincarnation, renascence |
| (noun) after death the soul begins a new cycle of existence in another human body | Synonyms: metempsychosis |
| reboot | (verb) cause to load (an operating system) and start the initial processes | Synonyms: boot, bring up |
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| reborn | (adjective) spiritually reborn or converted | Synonyms: born-again |
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| (adjective) restored to new life and vigor | Synonyms: revitalised, revitalized |
| rebound | (noun) the act of securing possession of the rebounding basketball after a missed shot | - |
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| (noun) a reaction to a crisis or setback or frustration | - |
| (noun) a movement back from an impact | Synonyms: backlash, recoil, repercussion |
| (verb) return to a former condition | Synonyms: rally |
| (verb) spring back; spring away from an impact | Synonyms: bounce, bound, recoil, resile, reverberate, ricochet, spring, take a hop |
| reboxetine | (noun) an antidepressant drug that blocks the reuptake of norepinephrine | Synonyms: Edronax |
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| rebozo | (noun) a long woolen or linen scarf covering the head and shoulders (also used as a sling for holding a baby); traditionally worn by Latin-American women | - |
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| rebroadcast | (noun) a broadcast that repeated at a later time | - |
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| (verb) broadcast again, as of a film | Synonyms: rerun |
| rebuff | (noun) a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval) | Synonyms: slight |
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| (noun) an instance of driving away or warding off | Synonyms: repulse, snub |
| (verb) reject outright and bluntly | Synonyms: repel, snub |
| (verb) force or drive back | Synonyms: drive back, fight off, repel, repulse |
| rebuild | (verb) build again | Synonyms: reconstruct |
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| rebuilding | (noun) building again | - |
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| rebuke | (noun) an act or expression of criticism and censure | Synonyms: reprehension, reprimand, reproof, reproval |
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| (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
| rebuker | (noun) someone who finds fault or imputes blame | Synonyms: reproacher, reprover, upbraider |
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| rebukingly | (adverb) in the manner of someone delivering a rebuke | - |
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| reburial | (noun) the act of burying again | Synonyms: reburying |
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| rebury | (verb) bury again | - |
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| reburying | (noun) the act of burying again | Synonyms: reburial |
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| rebus | (noun) a puzzle where you decode a message consisting of pictures representing syllables and words | - |
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| rebut | (verb) prove to be false or incorrect | Synonyms: controvert, refute |
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| (verb) overthrow by argument, evidence, or proof | Synonyms: refute |
| rebuttal | (noun) the speech act of refuting by offering a contrary contention or argument | - |
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| (noun) (law) a pleading by the defendant in reply to a plaintiff's surrejoinder | Synonyms: rebutter |
| rebutter | (noun) (law) a pleading by the defendant in reply to a plaintiff's surrejoinder | Synonyms: rebuttal |
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| (noun) a debater who refutes or disproves by offering contrary evidence or argument | Synonyms: confuter, disprover, refuter |