Definition of refuse

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Refuse (v. t.) To deny, as a request, demand, invitation, or command; to decline to do or grant..

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Raff :: Raff (n.) A promiscuous heap; a jumble; a large quantity; lumber; refuse.
Mullock :: Mullock (n.) Rubbish; refuse; dirt.
Sewage :: Sewage (n.) The contents of a sewer or drain; refuse liquids or matter carried off by sewer.
Chaff :: Chaff (n.) Anything of a comparatively light and worthless character; the refuse part of anything.
Knobstick :: Knobstick (n.) One who refuses to join, or withdraws from, a trades union..
Dishonor :: Dishonor (v. t.) To refuse or decline to accept or pay; -- said of a bill, check, note, or draft which is due or presented; as, to dishonor a bill exchange..
Refuse :: Refuse (v. t.) 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..
Refuse :: Refuse (n.) That which is refused or rejected as useless; waste or worthless matter.
Ebrillade :: Ebrillade (n.) A bridle check; a jerk of one rein, given to a horse when he refuses to turn..
Swaddle :: Swad (n.) A thin layer of refuse at the bottom of a seam.
Attle :: Attle (n.) Rubbish or refuse consisting of broken rock containing little or no ore.
Deny :: Deny (v. t.) To refuse to grant; to withhold; to refuse to gratify or yield to; as, to deny a request..
Take :: Take (v. t.) Not to refuse or balk at; to undertake readily; to clear; as, to take a hedge or fence..
Disapprove :: Disapprove (v. t.) To refuse official approbation to; to disallow; to decline to sanction; as, the sentence of the court-martial was disapproved by the commander in chief..
Dump :: Dump (n.) A ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc..
Cut :: Cut (v. t.) To refuse to recognize; to ignore; as, to cut a person in the street; to cut one's acquaintance..
Retriment :: Retriment (n.) Refuse; dregs.
So :: So (adv.) Is it thus? do you mean what you say? -- with an upward tone; as, do you say he refuses? So?.
Disworship :: Disworship (v. t.) To refuse to worship; to treat as unworthy.
Gehenna :: Gehenna (n.) The valley of Hinnom, near Jerusalem, where some of the Israelites sacrificed their children to Moloch, which, on this account, was afterward regarded as a place of abomination, and made a receptacle for all the refuse of the city, perpetual fires being kept up in order to prevent pestilential effluvia. In the New Testament the name is transferred, by an easy metaphor, to Hell..
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