Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
- To fuse or melt again.
- In chess, same as
decline , 10. - 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.
- noun A refusal.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To deny, as a request, demand, invitation, or command; to decline to do or grant.
- transitive verb (Mil.) 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 obsolete To disown.
- noun obsolete Refusal.
- adjective Refused; rejected; hence; left as unworthy of acceptance; of no value; worthless.
- intransitive verb To deny compliance; not to comply.
- noun That which is refused or rejected as useless; waste or worthless matter.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
decline (a request or demand). - verb intransitive To decline a request or demand,
forbear ; to withhold permission. - adjective
Discarded ,rejected . - noun Collectively, items or material that have been discarded;
rubbish ,garbage .
from 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)
Etymologies
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Examples
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SB 387 redefines loose material! in Transportation Code Chapter 725 by adding the term refuse which is defined as trash! tmj_orl_transp Hiring: director, transportation - CHEP (Orlando,
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Did Mister Somin refuse to answer question #9, the racial profile question?
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Yet politicians like Senator McCain refuse to open their minds to alternatives.
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Is it that changes in refuse collection mean there are more bins outside houses to be scavenged.
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Did Mister Somin refuse to answer question #9, the racial profile question?
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If someone asks you to stop, puts their hand in front of the camera and looks clearly uncomfortable when you refuse is that not a blatant violation of their privacy?
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Each swirling mass of refuse is massive and collects trash from all over the world.
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If oil, paint or animal refuse is spilled, someone will sprinkle dirt over the slick, smelly or gummy spot.
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Said to be twice the size of the State of Texas and comprised of about 3.5 million tons of plastic shopping bags and random pieces of trash, most of this lightweight and buoyant refuse is discarded onshore and carried out by wind and currents.
Trash Planet eddvick 2007
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Apple -- which has mightily resisted tampering in any way with its 99 cent price point for tracks -- said that if the rate hike goes through and the labels refuse to absorb the entire resulting increase, the iTunes music store will become unprofitable.
doggdot.us 2008
oroboros commented on the word refuse
Trash vs. turn down.
November 24, 2007