refuse
Noun
- food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)
- Collectively, items or material that have been discarded; rubbish, garbage.
- refusal
Verb
Verb Forms: refused, refusing, refuses
- To decline to accept, do, or comply with something.
- show unwillingness towards
- refuse to accept
- "He refused my offer of hospitality"
- elude, especially in a baffling way
- refuse to let have
- resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ
- refuse entrance or membership
- To decline (a request or demand).
- To decline a request or demand, forbear; to withhold permission.
- To withhold (something) from (someone); to not give it to them or to bar them from having it.
- 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 disown.
- To fuse again, as with, or after, heating or melting.
Adj
- Discarded, rejected.
Examples
- He would never refuse a chance to play Scrabble, no matter the opponent.
- I asked the star if I could have her autograph, but she refused.
- I refuse to listen to this nonsense any more.
- My request for a pay rise was refused.
- to refuse the right wing while the left wing attacks
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed into late Middle English from Middle French refusé, past participle of refuser (“to refuse”). Displaced native Middle English wernen (“to refuse”)
Synonyms
decline, defy, deny, food waste, garbage, pass up, reject, resist, scraps, turn away, turn down, discards, forbear, nill, rubbish, say no, say no to, trash, veto, withsake, withsay
Scrabble Score: 9
refuse: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordrefuse: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
refuse: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary