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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Refuse \Ref'use\ (r?f"?s;277), noun [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Refuse \Ref"use\, adjective 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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Refuse \Re*fuse"\ (r?*f?z"), verb (used with an object) [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}.]
1. To deny, as a request, demand, invitation, or command; to decline to do or grant.
That never yet refused your hest. --Chaucer.
2. (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.
3. 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.
4. To disown. [Obs.] ''Refuse thy name.'' --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Refuse \Re*fuse"\, verb (used without an object) 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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Refuse \Re*fuse"\, noun Refusal. [Obs.] --Fairfax.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
refuse
noun: food that is discarded (as from a kitchen) [syn: {garbage}, {food waste}, {scraps}]
verb
1: show unwillingness towards; "he declined to join the group on a hike" [syn: {decline}] [ant: {accept}]
2: refuse to accept; "He refused my offer of hospitality" [syn: {reject}, {pass up}, {turn down}, {decline}] [ant: {accept}]
3: elude, especially in a baffling way; "This behavior defies explanation" [syn: {defy}, {resist}] [ant: {lend oneself}]
4: refuse to let have; "She denies me every pleasure"; "he denies her her weekly allowance" [syn: {deny}] [ant: {allow}]
5: resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ; "His body rejected the liver of the donor" [syn: {resist}, {reject}]
6: 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}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
228 Moby Thesaurus words for "refuse": abjure, afterglow, afterimage, balance, ban, bar, be unmoved, be unwilling, beat back, beg off, bilge, bilgewater, bones, brush aside, brush off, butt, butt end, candle ends, carrion, castaway, castoff, chaff, chase, chase away, chase off, chuck, chuck out, collateral, contemn, contradict, culm, cut, deadwood, debar, debris, decline, decline to accept, deep six, deny, deprive of, derelict, despise, detritus, dirt, disagree, disallow, disapprove, discard, discarding, disclaim, discount, disdain, dishwater, dismiss, disown, disposal, disregard, dissent, ditchwater, dogie, draff, dregs, drive away, drive back, dross, dump, dumping, dust, dustheap, elimination, embargo, end, enjoin, except, exclude, exclude from, fag end, fend off, filings, flotsam, flotsam and jetsam, forbid, forswear, fossil, foundling, garbage, gash, hogwash, hold off, hold out against, holdover, husks, ignore, inhibit, interdict, jetsam, jettison, junk, junking, keep back, keep off, kelter, lagan, leavings, lees, leftovers, litter, lumber, muck, negate, negative, not allow, not buy, not consent, not hear of, not think of, odds and ends, offal, offscourings, orphan, orts, outlaw, pack off, parings, pass by, pass up, pelf, potsherds, preclude, prevent, prohibit, proscribe, push aside, push back, put back, rags, raspings, rebuff, recant, refuse consent, refuse to consider, reject, rejectamenta, rejection, relics, remainder, remains, remnant, removal, renounce, repel, repress, reprobate, repudiate, repulse, residue, residuum, resist entreaty, resist persuasion, rest, riffraff, roach, rubbish, ruins, rule out, rump, sawdust, say nay, say no, say no to, scourings, scout, scrap iron, scrapping, scraps, scum, scurf, send away, send off, send packing, sewage, sewerage, shadow, shards, shavings, shove away, shut out, slack, slag, slop, slops, slough, snub, spurn, stand aloof, straw, stubble, stump, suppress, survival, sweepings, swill, taboo, tares, throw away, throw out, throwaway, thrust back, trace, trash, turn away, turn back, turn down, turn out, vestige, vote nay, vote negatively, waif, waifs and strays, waive, ward off, wastage, waste, waste matter, wastepaper, wastrel, weeds, withhold
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