Meaning of Refuse | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To decline (a request or demand).
   transitive
2. To fuse again, as with, or after, heating or melting.
3. To decline a request or demand, forbear; to withhold permission.
   intransitive
4. To withhold (something) from (someone); to not give it to them or to bar them from having it.
   ditransitive
5. 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.
6. To disown.
   obsolete, transitive

Equivalents

Examples

“My request⟳ for a pay⟳ rise⟳ was refused.”

“Eventually, the railway opened on Monday, December 14, 1896, with a universal fare of 1d. collected at the turnstiles, and conditions were immediately chaotic, as many passengers travelled round and round, and refused to leave⟳ the cars.”

“I refuse⟳ to listen⟳ to this nonsense any more.”

“I asked the star if I could have⟳ her autograph, but she refused.”

“If ye refuse⟳ […] ye shall be devoured with the sword.”

“The U. N. sent a commission to arrange⟳ for election of a Korean government. Russia and her satellites declined to cooperate with this Commission. Russia refused to let⟳ the Commission hold⟳ an election in north Korea, or even to enter⟳ north Korea. In southern Korea Leftist parties refused to meet⟳ with the Commission.”

“City were outclassed thereafter and Roberto Mancini said that substitute Carlos Tevez refused to play⟳.”

“Trump has explicitly refused to deal⟳ with the European Commission, seeking instead to conduct bilateral relations with individual EU countries.”

“My thoughts are disturbed by a man and pooch trying to get⟳ off the front of the train⟳. Despite hitting the door button, they refused to open⟳.”

“If we bang or scream⟳ they will spray us with some pepper or something else that's in an aeresol ^([sic]) can, and they wear⟳ gas masks, while the rest⟳ of us have⟳ to breathe⟳ the fumes in, and it makes us very sick and they refuse⟳ us medical treatment.”

“to refuse⟳ the right wing while the left wing attacks”

“Refuse⟳ thy name⟳.”

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