rebated

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rebated

/ˈɹiːbeɪtɪd/ UK
/ɹɪˈbeɪtɪd/ UK

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From rebate + -ed.

adjective more rebated · most rebated

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.
of the rim of a firearm cartridge Having a smaller diameter than the main body of the cartridge, from which it is separated by an extractor groove narrower than both.

verb

participle, past simple past and past participle of rebate

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@misc{rebated_2026,
  title = {rebated},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/rebated},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}