Refuse

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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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