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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