Definition of refuse Refuse
/ɹʌfjuˈz/ - [rufyuz] - ref•use
We found 27 definitions of refuse from 6 different sources.
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| refuse - refuse to accept; "He refused my offer of hospitality" | ||
| reject, pass up, turn down, decline | ||
| accept, have, take tolerate or accommodate oneself to; "I shall have to accept these unpleasant working conditions"; "I swallowed the insult"; "She has learned to live with her husband's little idiosyncrasies" | ||
| freeze off, spurn, disdain, pooh-pooh, scorn, turn down, reject express contempt about | ||
| dishonor, dishonour refuse to accept; "dishonor checks and drafts" | ||
| bounce hit something so that it bounces; "bounce a ball" | ||
| refuse - show unwillingness towards; "he declined to join the group on a hike" | ||
| decline | ||
| consent, go for, accept tolerate or accommodate oneself to; "I shall have to accept these unpleasant working conditions"; "I swallowed the insult"; "She has learned to live with her husband's little idiosyncrasies" | ||
| react, respond undergo a chemical reaction; react with another substance under certain conditions; "The hydrogen and the oxygen react" | ||
| freeze off, spurn, disdain, pooh-pooh, scorn, turn down, reject express contempt about | ||
| contract out refuse to pay a levy to a union for political use | ||
| regret express with regret; "I regret to say that you did not gain admission to Harvard" | ||
| repudiate refuse to acknowledge, ratify, or recognize as valid; "The woman repudiated the divorce settlement" | ||
| disobey refuse to go along with; refuse to follow; be disobedient; "He disobeyed his supervisor and was fired" | ||
| refuse - refuse to let have; "She denies me every pleasure"; "he denies her her weekly allowance" | ||
| deny | ||
| grant, allow transfer by deed; "grant land" | ||
| abnegate, deny deny or renounce; "They abnegated their gods" | ||
| hold on, keep stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments; "Hold on a moment!" | ||
| withhold, keep back hold back; refuse to hand over or share; "The father is withholding the allowance until the son cleans his room" | ||
| refuse - refuse entrance or membership; "They turned away hundreds of fans"; "Black people were often rejected by country clubs" | ||
| reject, turn down, turn away | ||
| allow in, intromit, let in, admit declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of; "He admitted his errors"; "She acknowledged that she might have forgotten" | ||
| freeze off, spurn, disdain, pooh-pooh, scorn, turn down, reject express contempt about | ||
| refuse - elude, especially in a baffling way; "This behavior defies explanation" | ||
| defy, resist | ||
| lend oneself, apply be applicable to; as to an analysis; "This theory lends itself well to our new data" | ||
| elude, escape escape, either physically or mentally; "The thief eluded the police"; "This difficult idea seems to evade her"; "The event evades explanation" | ||
| beggar reduce to beggary | ||
| refuse - resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ; "His body rejected the liver of the donor" | ||
| resist, reject | ||
| react, respond undergo a chemical reaction; react with another substance under certain conditions; "The hydrogen and the oxygen react" | ||
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Wiktionary 
- refuse (Noun)
Collectively, items or material that have been discarded; rubbish, garbage. - refuse (Noun)
refusal. - refuse (Verb)
To decline a request or demand. - refuse (Verb)
To decline a request or demand, forbear; to withhold permission. - refuse (Verb)
To throw back, or cause to keep back as the centre, a wing, or a flank, out of the regular alignment when troops are about to engage the enemy. - refuse (Verb)
To disown. - refuse (Adjective)
Discarded, rejected.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- refuse (v. t.)
To deny, as a request, demand, invitation, or command; to decline to do or grant. - refuse (v. t.)
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; as, to refuse the right wing while the left wing attacks. - refuse (v. t.)
To decline to accept; to reject; to deny the request or petition of; as, to refuse a suitor. - refuse (v. t.)
To disown. - refuse (v. i.)
To deny compliance; not to comply. - refuse (n.)
Refusal. - refuse (n.)
That which is refused or rejected as useless; waste or worthless matter. - refuse (a.)
Refused; rejected; hence; left as unworthy of acceptance; of no value; worthless.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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refuse
Unwanted or undesired material, usually discarded. -
refuse
To not want to do what is being asked.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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refuse
rē-fūz′, v.t. to reject: to deny, as a request, &c.: to disown: to fail to receive, to repel: (mil.) to hold troops back from the regular alignment.—v.i. to decline acceptance: not to comply.—adj. Refū′sable, capable of being refused.—ns. Refū′sal, denial of anything requested: rejection: the right of taking in preference to others; Rēfū′ser. [Fr. refuser, prob. due to confusion of L. refutāre, to drive back, recusāre, to make an objection against.] -
refuse
ref′ūs, adj. refused: worthless.—n. that which is rejected or left as worthless: dross -
refuse
rē-fūz′, v.t. to melt again.—n. Rēfū′sion, repeated fusion or melting, as of metals: restoration
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