refuser

transitive verb refused, refusing

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

intransitive verb