Rebated

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ˈɹiːbeɪtɪd/, /ɹɪˈbeɪtɪd/

Origin

From rebate + -ed.

Full definition of rebated

Adjective

1. Blunted, dulled (of a blade, weapon etc.). from 16th c.
• 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, p. 288:Even with blunted lances and filed-down or ‘rebated’ blades, grave injury and death were all too frequent, and tended to ‘disturb the cheerfulness of such events’, as a contemporary Spanish herald understatedly put it.

Verb

1. rebated

   (past of rebate)

Anagrams

• berated
• debater