refuse

Plural: refuse, refused

Noun

• food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)
• Collectively, items or material that have been discarded; rubbish, garbage.
• refusal

Verb

• 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

• "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"

Synonyms

decline, defy, deny, discards, food waste, forbear, garbage, nill, pass up, reject, resist, rubbish, say no, say no to, scraps, trash, turn away, turn down, veto, withsake, withsay

Antonyms

accept, admit, allow, lend oneself

Related Words

refusal, refusion, refutal, refute, reinfuse, rejoin, reweld