The Meaning of refuse

• (v. t.) To deny, as a request, demand, invitation, or command; to decline to do or grant.
• (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.
• (v. t.) To decline to accept; to reject; to deny the request or petition of; as, to refuse a suitor.
• (v. t.) To disown.
• (v. i.) To deny compliance; not to comply.
• (n.) Refusal.
• (n.) That which is refused or rejected as useless; waste or worthless matter.
• (a.) Refused; rejected; hence; left as unworthy of acceptance; of no value; worthless.

Synonyms

garbage , food waste , scraps , decline , reject , pass up , turn down , decline , defy , resist , deny , resist , reject , reject , turn down , turn away

Antonyms

accept , accept , lend oneself , allow , admit

Rhymes

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