refuse

Meaning

Adj

Discarded, rejected.

Noun

Collectively, items or material that have been discarded; rubbish, garbage.

Verb

1. (transitive) To decline (a request or demand).
2. (intransitive) To decline a request or demand, forbear; to withhold permission.
3. (ditransitive) To withhold (something) from (someone); to not give it to them or to bar them from having it.
4. 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.
5. (obsolete, transitive) To disown.

Noun

refusal

Verb

To fuse again, as with, or after, heating or melting.

Synonyms

reject

decline

deny

rubbish

garbage

🗑️

trash

waste

turn down

say no

litter

disavow

dismiss

spurn

dregs

forbid

resist

remove

sweepings

repulse

repel

withhold

disallow

disagree

rebuff

not want

junk

offal

lees

filth

abnegate

shun

discard

scum

dirt

resend

renounce

refute

pass up

oppose

scraps

disclaim

contradict

relay

sediment

hate

😡

muck

clippings

negate

residue

repress

Translations

refuser

ablehnen

rifiutare

weigeren

recusar

rehusar

verweigern

rechazar

rejeter

abschlagen

afwijzen

abweisen

verwerpen

refusar

rejeitar

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɹɛfjuːs/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: -

Inherited from Middle English: refusen

In summary

Borrowed into late Middle English from Middle French refusé, past participle of refuser (“to refuse”). Displaced native Middle English wernen (“to refuse”)

Sentences

I refuse to do that .