refuse

Etymology 1
Borrowed into late from, past participle of. Displaced native Middle English

Adjective

 * 1) Discarded, rejected.

Noun

 * 1) Collectively, items or material that have been discarded; rubbish, garbage.

Synonyms

 * (US)
 * (UK)
 * (US)
 * See also Thesaurus:trash
 * See also Thesaurus:trash

Translations

 * Afrikaans: vullis, rommel
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Cherokee: ᎤᏲ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:, ,
 * Galician:
 * German: ,
 * Greek: απορρίματα
 * Ancient: φορυτός, σκύβαλον
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish:, dríodar, fuílleach
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Lao:
 * Latin:, scrūta
 * Maori: parapara, para, kapurangi
 * Norwegian Bokmål:
 * Plautdietsch: Aufgank
 * Polish: odrzuty
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:, , , ,
 * Thai:
 * Ukrainian: відхо́ди, сміття́
 * Welsh:, sothach

Etymology 2
From, from , from , a blend of Classical (whence also ) and  (whence also ).

Verb

 * 1)  To decline (a request or demand).
 * 2)  To decline a request or demand, forbear; to withhold permission.
 * 3)  To withhold (something) from (someone); to not give it to them or to bar them from having it.
 * 4)  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.
 * 5)  To disown.
 * 1)  To withhold (something) from (someone); to not give it to them or to bar them from having it.
 * 2)  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.
 * 3)  To disown.
 * 1)  To withhold (something) from (someone); to not give it to them or to bar them from having it.
 * 2)  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.
 * 3)  To disown.
 * 1)  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.
 * 2)  To disown.
 * 1)  To disown.

Usage notes

 * This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs.

Synonyms

 * ,, , say no to, turn down, veto, withsake, withsay
 * say no, forbear

Translations

 * Afrikaans: weier
 * Arabic: رَفَضَ,
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: uko egin, baztertu
 * Belarusian: адмаўля́ць, адка́зваць
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Cebuano: balibad
 * Chichewa: kana
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Cornish: denagha
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: recusar
 * Georgian:
 * German: sich weigern,, ,
 * Gothic: 𐌱𐌹𐍅𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌾𐌰𐌽
 * Greek:
 * Haitian Creole: refize
 * Higaonon: balibad
 * Hindi: प्रतिषेध करना
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: éar, eitigh
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Kapampangan: payalyan
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Lao: ປະຕິເສດ
 * Latin: abnegō, recūsō
 * Macedonian: одбива, одбие
 * Maori: whakanau, kape, meko
 * Middle English: wernen
 * Mongolian:
 * Ngazidja Comorian: hara, haraya
 * Norman: r'fuser
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Oromo: diduu
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: mana quy, mananchay
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: diùlt
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: о̀дбити
 * Roman:
 * Sidamo: gib-
 * Slovak: odmietať, odmietnuť
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Ukrainian: відмовля́ти
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:, , , , gomedd


 * Afrikaans: weier
 * Arabic: رَفَضَ
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: отказвам се
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: refusar
 * German: sich weigern
 * Greek:
 * Haitian Creole: refize
 * Hungarian: nem hajlandó
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Latin: abnegō
 * Maori: tohe
 * Norman: r'fuser
 * Occitan:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: diùlt
 * Spanish: refusar
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Ukrainian: відмовля́тися

Noun

 * 1)  refusal

Verb

 * 1) To fuse again, as with, or after, heating or melting.