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refuse

/ˈɹɛfjuːs/ · noun

Meaning

  1. Collectively, items or material that have been discarded; rubbish, garbage.
  2. Discarded, rejected.
  3. Refusal
  4. To decline (a request or demand).
  5. To decline a request or demand, forbear; to withhold permission.
  6. 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.
  7. To disown.
  8. To melt again.

Etymology / origin

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Related words

turn down(English)reject(English)deny(English)turn away(English)resist(English)defy(English)decline(English)pass up(English)crematoria(English)cemeteries(English)recycling(English)leisure(English)

Descendant words

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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