Crossword clues for refuse
refuse
- Deny it's junk
- Decline to jump; rubbish
- Turn down an opportunity, perhaps, to join again
- Unite again? Say no!
- Say no to
- Just say no
- Worthless material
- Say no
- Stuff destined for the dump
- Dumpster fill
- Say no to — rubbish
- Say "no" to
- Just say no to
- Scow load
- Say "No, thanks" to
- Say 'no' to
- Just say no to trash?
- Don't go along
- Trash
- Decline to accept — waste
- Food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)
- Deny
- Spurn
- Say nay
- Certain barge cargo
- Junk
- Turn down
- Garbage force brought in to recycle?
- Say no; rubbish
- Say no to waste!
- Say no to junk
- Say no to - rubbish
- Not accept rubbish
- Fine to recycle cans and waste
- Reject rubbish
- Deny scheme to capture European female
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Refuse \Re*fuse"\ (r?*f?z"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Refused (-f?zd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Refusing.] [F. refuser, either from (assumed) LL. refusare to refuse, v. freq. of L. refundere to pour back, give back, restore (see Refund to repay), or. fr. L. recusare to decline, refuse cf. Accuse, Ruse), influenced by L. refutare to drive back, repel, refute. Cf. Refute.]
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To deny, as a request, demand, invitation, or command; to decline to do or grant.
That never yet refused your hest.
--Chaucer. (Mil.) 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.
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To decline to accept; to reject; to deny the request or petition of; as, to refuse a suitor.
The cunning workman never doth refuse The meanest tool that he may chance to use.
--Herbert. To disown. [Obs.] ``Refuse thy name.''
--Shak.
Refuse \Re*fuse"\, v. i. To deny compliance; not to comply.
Too proud to ask, too humble to refuse.
--Garth.
If ye refuse . . . ye shall be devoured with the sword.
--Isa. i. 20.
Refuse \Re*fuse"\, n.
Refusal. [Obs.]
--Fairfax.
Refuse \Ref"use\, a. Refused; rejected; hence; left as unworthy of acceptance; of no value; worthless.
Everything that was vile and refuse, that they
destroyed utterly.
--1. Sam. xv.
9.
Refuse \Ref`use\ (r?f"?s;277), n. [F. refus refusal, also, that which is refused. See Refuse to deny.] That which is refused or rejected as useless; waste or worthless matter.
Syn: Dregs; sediment; scum; recrement; dross.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, from Old French refuser "reject, disregard, avoid" (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *refusare, frequentative form from past participle stem of Latin refundere "pour back, give back" (see refund (v.)). Related: Refused; refusing.
mid-14c., "an outcast;" mid-14c., "a rejected thing, waste material, trash," from Old French refus "waste product, rubbish; refusal, denial, rejection," a back-formation from the past participle of refuser (see refuse (v.)). As an adjective from late 14c., "despised, rejected;" early 15c., "of low quality."
Wiktionary
Etymology 1
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discarded, rejected. n. (context UK English) Collectively, items or material that have been discarded; rubbish, garbage. Etymology 2
n. (context obsolete English) refusal v
(context transitive English) To decline (a request or demand).
WordNet
n. food that is discarded (as from a kitchen) [syn: garbage, food waste, scraps]
v. show unwillingness towards; "he declined to join the group on a hike" [syn: decline] [ant: accept]
refuse to accept; "He refused my offer of hospitality" [syn: reject, pass up, turn down, decline] [ant: accept]
elude, especially in a baffling way; "This behavior defies explanation" [syn: defy, resist] [ant: lend oneself]
refuse to let have; "She denies me every pleasure"; "he denies her her weekly allowance" [syn: deny] [ant: allow]
resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ; "His body rejected the liver of the donor" [syn: resist, reject]
refuse entrance or membership; "They turned away hundreds of fans"; "Black people were often rejected by country clubs" [syn: reject, turn down, turn away] [ant: admit]
Usage examples of "refuse".
Captain Nekrasov refused to accommodate me, but his sergeant proved far more generous with the facts.
Jeanneney and Herriot respectively, refused to attend the social functions accorded the Nazi visitor.
What it had refused the Allies the year before it accorded to Nazi Germany.
Bass refused, usually because Enron wanted accounting results divorced from economics.
It was wider than an urban walkway, so she could easily have gone upright, but her acrophobia refused to allow her to let go with her hands.
NSA was the unwanted stepchild of powerful spymasters such as Allen Dulles, who refused its director a seat on the Intelligence Advisory Committee.
I could not imagine a more afflictive punishment than for my mother to refuse to kiss me at night: the very idea was terrible.
I am convinced, have it said of you, that, after having affronted a noble peer, you refuse him satisfaction.
Swedish majesty, by the advice of the senate, thought proper to refuse complying with this request, alleging, that as the crown of Sweden was one of the principal guarantees of the treaty of Westphalia, it would be highly improper to take such a step in favour of a prince who had not only broke the laws and constitution of the empire, in refusing to furnish his contingent, but had even assisted, with his troops, a power known to be its declared enemy.
Eric sometimes beat the walls with his fists or shrieked when he was denied a game or treat, and since he wasted his own allotment, his mother often had to refuse his requests for part of hers.
It is a very ancient reproach, suggested by the ignorance or the malice of infidelity, that the Christians allured into their party the most atrocious criminals, who, as soon as they were touched by a sense of remorse, were easily persuaded to wash away, in the water of baptism, the guilt of their past conduct, for which the temples of the gods refused to grant them any expiation.
The love of rapine and war allured to the Imperial standard several tribes of Saracens, or roving Arabs, whose service Julian had commanded, while he sternly refused the payment of the accustomed subsidies.
Congress of the United States, which failed or refused to exercise its power and authority to annul the same.
Reichstag refused to renew the antisocialist laws, Engels looked confidently to these two disciples to lead the SPD on the right course.
Ranging the continent literally from Georgia to Maine, with all his weaknesses and indiscretions, and with his incomparable eloquence, welcomed by every sect, yet refusing an exclusive allegiance to any, Whitefield exercised a true apostolate, bearing daily the care of all the churches, and becoming a messenger of mutual fellowship not only between the ends of the continent, but between the Christians of two hemispheres.