| 释义 |
rebunk, v.|riːˈbʌŋk|
[f. re- 5 a + bunk n.4, after debunk v.]
trans. To restore the reputation of or regard for (a person who has been debunked). So reˈbunking vbl. n.
1960Times Lit. Suppl. 6 May 291/4 We live in an age of rebunking, when it has become fashionable once more to take the Victorians almost as solemnly as they took them⁓selves. 1962Ibid. 11 May 341/1 Mr. Swanberg sets out neither to debunk nor to rebunk ‘the Chief’, but to describe him..as a social and political phenomenon. |