Rebated
adj, verb
adj, verb ·3 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 simple past and past participle of rebate form-of, participle, past
Adjective
- 1 Blunted, dulled (of a blade, weapon etc.).
"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."
- 2 Having a smaller diameter than the main body of the cartridge, from which it is separated by an extractor groove narrower than both.
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From rebate + -ed.
More for "rebated"
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.