Refuse

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To fuse or melt again.
  • noun. That which is refused or rejected; waste or useless matter; the worst or meanest part; rubbish.
  • noun. Synonyms Dregs, scum, dross, trash, rubbish.
  • Refused; rejected; hence, worthless; of no value: as, the refuse parts of stone or timber.
  • In chess, same as decline, 10.
  • noun. A refusal.
  • 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To deny compliance; not to comply.
  • transitive verb. To deny, as a request, demand, invitation, or command; to decline to do or grant.
  • transitive verb. 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.
  • transitive verb. To decline to accept; to reject; to deny the request or petition of.
  • transitive verb. To disown.
  • noun. Refusal.
  • noun. That which is refused or rejected as useless; waste or worthless matter.
  • adjective. Refused; rejected; hence; left as unworthy of acceptance; of no value; worthless.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Discarded, rejected.
  • noun. Collectively, items or material that have been discarded; rubbish, garbage.
  • verb. To decline (a request or demand).
  • verb. To decline a request or demand, forbear; to withhold permission.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ
  • verb. refuse to accept
  • verb. refuse entrance or membership
  • verb. refuse to let have
  • verb. elude, especially in a baffling way
  • verb. show unwillingness towards
  • noun. food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)
  • Word Usage
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