Associations to the word «Refuse»
Noun
- Payment
- Insult
- Contempt
- Resist
- Trash
- Permit
- Pretext
- Recycling
- Heed
- Legitimacy
- Knighthood
- Admission
- Saying
- Hire
- Injunction
- Ransom
- Urge
- Waste
- Protest
- Petition
- Conscription
- Answer
- Displeasure
- Apology
- Fail
- Filth
- Redress
- Guilt
- Defendant
- Tithe
- Urging
- Ruling
- Passport
- Deni
- Bree
- Marge
- Disposal
- Tourism
- Whereabouts
- Blackmail
- Discretion
- Sustaining
- Cordelia
- Chute
- Manure
- Try
- Henchman
- Fair
- Blame
Verb
Wiktionary
REFUSE, adjective. Discarded, rejected.
REFUSE, noun. (UK) Collectively, items or material that have been discarded; rubbish, garbage.
REFUSE, verb. (transitive) To decline (a request or demand).
REFUSE, verb. (intransitive) To decline a request or demand, forbear; to withhold permission.
REFUSE, verb. (military) 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.
REFUSE, verb. (obsolete) (transitive) To disown.
REFUSE, noun. (obsolete) refusal
Dictionary definition
REFUSE, noun. Food that is discarded (as from a kitchen).
REFUSE, verb. Show unwillingness towards; "he declined to join the group on a hike".
REFUSE, verb. Refuse to accept; "He refused my offer of hospitality".
REFUSE, verb. Elude, especially in a baffling way; "This behavior defies explanation".
REFUSE, verb. Refuse to let have; "She denies me every pleasure"; "he denies her her weekly allowance".
REFUSE, verb. Resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ; "His body rejected the liver of the donor".
REFUSE, verb. Refuse entrance or membership; "They turned away hundreds of fans"; "Black people were often rejected by country clubs".
Wise words
Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at
least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are
nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to
build something with them; they do not win their true
meaning until one knows how to apply them.