1. Verb
To deny, as a request, demand, invitation, or command; to decline to do or grant.
2. Verb
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.
3. Verb
To decline to accept; to reject; to deny the request or petition of; as, to refuse a suitor.
4. Verb
To disown.
5. Verb
To deny compliance; not to comply.
6. Noun
Refusal.
7. Noun
That which is refused or rejected as useless; waste or worthless matter.
8. Adjective
Refused; rejected; hence; left as unworthy of acceptance; of no value; worthless.
9. Verb
not accept as true; "He refused to accept what she said"
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