Refuse

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To indicate unwillingness to do, accept, give, or allow: She was refused admittance. He refused treatment.
  • v. To indicate unwillingness (to do something): refused to leave.
  • v. To decline to jump (an obstacle). Used of a horse.
  • verb-intransitive. To decline to do, accept, give, or allow something.
  • n. Items or material discarded or rejected as useless or worthless; trash or rubbish.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Discarded, rejected.
  • n. Collectively, items or material that have been discarded; rubbish, garbage.
  • v. To decline (a request or demand).
  • v. To decline a request or demand, forbear; to withhold permission.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To deny, as a request, demand, invitation, or command; to decline to do or grant.
  • v. To throw back, or cause to keep back (as the center, a wing, or a flank), out of the regular aligment when troops ar� about to engage the enemy.
  • v. To decline to accept; to reject; to deny the request or petition of.
  • v. To disown.
  • verb-intransitive. To deny compliance; not to comply.
  • n. Refusal.
  • n. That which is refused or rejected as useless; waste or worthless matter.
  • adj. Refused; rejected; hence; left as unworthy of acceptance; of no value; worthless.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To deny, as a request, demand, or invitation; decline to do or grant: as, to refuse admittance; she refused herself to callers.
  • To decline to accept; reject: as, to refuse an office; to refuse an offer.
  • To disown; disavow; forsake.
  • Milit., to hold (troops) back, or move (them) back from the regular alinement, when about to engage the enemy in battle. In the oblique order of battle, if either flank attack, the other flank is refused.
  • Fail to receive; resist; repel.
  • Synonyms and Decline, Refuse, Reject, Repel, and Rebuff are in the order of strength.
  • To decline to accept or consent; fail to comply.
  • n. A refusal.
  • n. That which is refused or rejected; waste or useless matter; the worst or meanest part; rubbish.
  • n. Synonyms Dregs, scum, dross, trash, rubbish.
  • Refused; rejected; hence, worthless; of no value: as, the refuse parts of stone or timber.
  • To fuse or melt again.
  • In chess, same as decline, 10.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ
  • v. refuse to accept
  • v. refuse entrance or membership
  • v. refuse to let have
  • v. elude, especially in a baffling way
  • v. show unwillingness towards
  • n. food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)
  • Verb Form
    refused    refuses    refusing   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Cross Reference
    reject   
    Hyponym
    dishonor    dishonour    bounce   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    reject    disown    refusal    dross    sediment    dregs    scum    recrement    refused    rejected   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Chartreuse    Cruz    Druse    Druze    Hughes    Jews    Loos    Mahfouz    Meuse    Muse   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    garbage    manure    waste    filth    débris    sewage    offal    slime    scrap    compost