Pronunciation Adjective
refuse
Nounrefuse (uncountable)
Synonyms- discards
- garbage (US)
- rubbish (UK)
- trash (US)
- See also Thesaurus:trash
- French: ordures, déchets, détritus
- German: Abfall, Müll
- Italian: rifiuti
- Portuguese: lixo, descartado
- Russian: отбро́сы
- Spanish: basura, desechos
refuse (refuses, present participle refusing; past and past participle refused)
- (transitive) To decline (a request or demand).
- My request for a pay rise was refused.
- (intransitive) To decline a request or demand, forbear; to withhold permission.
- I refuse to listen to this nonsense any more.
- I asked the star if I could have her autograph, but she refused.
- Bible, Isa. i. 20
- If ye refuse […] ye shall be devoured with the sword.
- (military) 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.
- to refuse the right wing while the left wing attacks
- (obsolete, transitive) To disown.
- c. 1591–1595, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act II, scene ii]:
- Refuse thy name.
- (decline) decline, reject, nill, say no to, turn down, veto, withsake, withsay
- (decline a request or demand) say no, forbear
- French: refuser
- German: sich weigern, verweigern, ablehnen, abschlagen
- Italian: rifiutare
- Portuguese: recusar
- Russian: отка́зывать
- Spanish: rehusar
refuse
- (obsolete) refusal
refuse (refuses, present participle refusing; past and past participle refused)
- To melt again.
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