refuse

adjective

1. 1

   Discarded, rejected.

noun

1. 1

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

verb

1. 1

   To decline (a request or demand).

   My request for a pay rise was refused.

   After the death of his [Verney's] first wife, he proposed to Florence Nightingale but she refused him. Later he married her sister, and for many years Claydon was Miss Nightingale's second home.

2. 2

   To decline a request or demand, forbear; to withhold permission.

   I refuse to listen to this nonsense any more.

   I asked the star if I could have her autograph, but she refused.

   If ye refuse […] ye shall be devoured with the sword.

   The U. N. sent a commission to arrange for election of a Korean government. Russia and her satellites declined to cooperate with this Commission. Russia refused to let the Commission hold an election in north Korea, or even to enter north Korea. In southern Korea Leftist parties refused to meet with the Commission.

3. 3

   To withhold (something) from (someone); to not give it to them or to bar them from having it.

   If we bang or scream they will spray us with some pepper or something else that's in an aeresol ^([sic]) can, and they wear gas masks, while the rest of us have to breathe the fumes in, and it makes us very sick and they refuse us medical treatment.

4. 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.

   to refuse the right wing while the left wing attacks

5. 5

   obsoleteTo disown.

   Refuse thy name.

noun

1. 1

   obsoleterefusal

   This ſpoken, readie with a proud refuſe [...]

verb

1. 1

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

Forms

comparative

more refuse

superlative

most refuse

past tense

refused

past participle

refused

present participle

refusing

third person singular

refuses