refuse

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Synonyms: refute, refuge, recuse, reuse, defuse, retuse, prefuse, re-fuse, re-use, rafuse, re use

Antonyms: refute, refuge, recuse, reuse, defuse, retuse, prefuse, re-fuse, re-use, rafuse, re use

Related words from Datamuse; suggestions, not definitions.

Adjective

1. Discarded, rejected.

Noun

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

Verb

1. To decline (a request or demand).
   • My request for a pay rise was refused.
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.
3. To withhold (something) from (someone); to not give it to them or to bar them from having it.
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. To disown.

Noun

1. refusal

Verb

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

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