refuse

Refuse is defined as to reject or to decide to not do something.

(verb)

Refuse means trash.

(noun)

An example of refuse is old furniture and papers left in a pile on the side of the road.

See refuse in Webster's New World College Dictionary

transitive verb refused, refusing

to decline to accept; reject
1. to decline to do, give, or grant
2. to decline: with an infinitive object: to refuse to go
1. to decline to accept or submit to (a command, etc.); decline to undergo
2. to decline to grant the request of (a person)
to stop short at (a fence, etc.), without jumping it: said of a horse
Obsolete to renounce

Origin: ME refusen < OFr refuser < LL *refusare < L refusus, pp. of refundere: see refund

intransitive verb

to decline to accept, agree to, or do something

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noun

anything thrown away or rejected as worthless or useless; waste; trash; rubbish

Origin: ME < OFr refus, pp. of refuser: see refuse

adjective

thrown away or rejected as worthless or useless

See refuse in American Heritage Dictionary 4

verb re·fused, re·fus·ing, re·fus·es

verb, transitive

a. To indicate unwillingness to do, accept, give, or allow: She was refused admittance. He refused treatment.
b. To indicate unwillingness (to do something): refused to leave.
To decline to jump (an obstacle). Used of a horse.

verb, intransitive

To decline to do, accept, give, or allow something.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English refusen

Origin: , from Old French refuser

Origin: , from Vulgar Latin *refūsāre

Origin: , probably blend of Latin recūsāre, to refuse; see recuse

Origin: and Latin refūtāre, refute; see refute

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