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refuse English

Meaning refuse meaning

What does refuse mean?
Definitions in simple English

refuse Verb

— If you refuse a request or demand, you decline or reject it. I refuse to take the offer for this house. — If you refuse a request or demand, you do not give your permission for it; you withhold it. My request for a pay raise was refused.

refuse Noun

— Refuse is stuff that people don't need and throw away.

refuse

— verb (= decline) show unwillingness towards he declined to join the group on a hike — verb refuse to accept He refused my offer of hospitality — verb (= defy) elude, especially in a baffling way This behavior defies explanation — verb (= deny) refuse to let have She denies me every pleasure he denies her her weekly allowance — noun (= garbage) food that is discarded (as from a kitchen) — verb (= resist, reject) resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ His body rejected the liver of the donor — verb (= reject, turn away) refuse entrance or membership They turned away hundreds of fans Black people were often rejected by country clubs

Synonyms refuse synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as refuse?

refuse English » English

reject decline deny rubbish garbage trash waste turn down say no litter dismiss disavow spurn forbid dregs sweepings resist remove withhold repulse repel rebuff disallow disagree offal not want junk shun scum lees filth discard dirt abnegate sediment scraps resend renounce relay refute pass up oppose hate disclaim contradict turn away send back residue repudiate repress

Topics refuse topics

What do people use refuse to talk about?
Language and thought Want Request

Refuse to do something
Language and thought Think Mind

Think about
Language and thought Want Offer

Reject
States Quality Good Decay

Garbage
Language and thought Soul, spirit Mental state

Ignore
Language and thought Think Learn

Willing to learn
Language and thought Think Opinion

Disbelief
Language and thought Want Decide, plan

Stubborn
Language and thought Want Influence

Advise
Language and thought Want Ask permission

Refuse permission
Language and thought Communication Say Speak with others

Greet
Social behavior Authority Submit to authority

Disobey

Conjugation refuse conjugation

How do you conjugate refuse?

refuse · verb

Examples refuse examples

How do I use refuse in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I refuse to do that.
I refuse to eat dairy.
I refuse to be in sunshine the whole day.
Some parents refuse to have their children vaccinated.
I refuse to drive Tom home.
I refuse to discuss that with Tom.
I refuse to work under pressure.
The majority of people refuse it.
I refuse to be treated like a slave by you.
You did wrong to refuse his help.
I refuse to consent to that plan.
This noise is something which I refuse to put up with.
I refuse to answer the question.
I refuse to discuss the question.
I don't know whether to accept or refuse.
Nobody could refuse their invitation.
It was silly of him to refuse her offer.
She is likely to refuse to follow his advice, because she doesn't like him.
Refuse to take no answer.
Crows often fish through refuse.
It was a mistake to refuse her aid.
It was a mistake to refuse his assistance.
I refuse to obey you any longer.
You must refuse to drink this drug.
In other words, she wants to refuse the proposal.
It was hard for me to refuse his request.
She may well refuse to speak to you because she's in a very bad mood.
She is likely to refuse to follow his advice, because she does not like him.

Movie subtitles

Who could refuse to kowtow to an emperor possessed of so mighty a fleet?
Dear Lady, Is it possible that you'll refuse to see me again?
If you continue to refuse to see me, then tomorrow the whole city will know about that mysterious incident on the day of your betrothal to your husband.
I offer you the Court and wealth and you refuse?
Do you not know it is the Body of Christ you refuse?
And that's exactly what physicians in this country and the police will think. What gives vampires their power is the fact that people refuse to believe in them.
Charlie, if i were you, i should refuse to listen to anything against my wife.
You'll do me a greater hurt if you refuse.
Yes, but under these circumstances we might refuse to sign now.
SO, YOU REFUSE TO SHAKE HANDS WITH ME, EH?
As the general of that army, suppose I refuse?
I refuse to go until I definitely know about my husband.
Why do you continually refuse to show us the map?
Richard of England do you refuse to wed the Princess of France to whom you are pledged?
Forgive me, General, but I refuse to continue to debate with someone who compares our troops to Cossacks!
I cannot refuse.
And if we refuse?
So you refuse to abandon the notion of subjugating humans, despite the probable outcome?
If you refuse, there's the door.
Those who refuse will be beaten and put in the stocks!
P.S. If you refuse this you will present Faust in a house with a curse on it.
I refuse to play any longer.
What gives vampires their power is the fact that people refuse to believe in them.
Why don't you just flatly refuse.
So, you refuse to shake hands with me, eh?
Why did you refuse to see me this afternoon?
I'm saying, and, uh, when he called me to ask for my help, I just couldn't refuse.
Your daughter called you to beg you for help, and you refuse her?
How can you refuse to pay me for this bond?
Stop thinking. don't refuse.
Refuse to obey her.
You refuse to obey me?
You refuse to obey your mother?
Well, I refuse to be jostled about it.
He will refuse to misrepresent his product. He will scorn unmerited profit.
I refuse your offer.
According to the record here, you refuse to tell where you live.

News and current affairs

There is a considerable gap between offers of advice one cannot refuse and the responsibility to deal with the consequences when that advice proves wrong or extremely difficult to implement.
The law would permit marital rape, limit women's movements - say, for work or study - without male permission, and even make it illegal for a woman to refuse to dress as her husband wishes.
They refuse to come to the aid of the destitute, and defend tax cuts at every opportunity.
Or they might fear the consequences of not taking the advice (an offer one cannot refuse, so to speak).
Few governments refuse to pay at all in any form.
Both countries recognize that if they refuse to sell America oil, other countries (Russia and Mexico) will take up the slack.
Acting at the behest of the member states, the ECB has sufficient powers of persuasion: it could close its discount window to the banks, and the governments could seize institutions that refuse to cooperate.
Because vaccines are useless if parents refuse to give them to their children, a big part of my job is to collaborate with health workers, community leaders, school teachers, and local political figures to educate parents about vaccines.
Venezuela, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Ecuador, Paraguay, and possibly Argentina will refuse.
Recent history is replete with alarming examples of dictators and would be dictators who refuse to recognize when their time has run out.
But for the past twenty years their blatant political chicanery has been met with a potent new force: the massed voices of ordinary people who refuse to be cowed.
If Californians refuse, Obama could face a widening revolt - against the idea of expanded government as the chief response to what ails America at home.
If one believes that market instability is rare, then it is reasonable to refuse to act unless there is a compelling case to do so.
Even if they refuse to be drawn in, they face an influx of refugees and other forms of contagion.
But we must refuse to bow before the altar of tolerance when it comes to what is truly unacceptable, wherever it occurs, and this is what the world is witnessing passively in Afghanistan.
They are imprisoned for their Stalinist allegiance; when they are finally allowed to return to Italy, their old comrades refuse to accept them.
But it is condescending to refuse to hold many of them partly responsible for their own plight.
If investors refuse to buy the debt on any terms, even a fiscally prudent government could find itself in a liquidity squeeze and become insolvent.
Many have argued that Indian women should stand up to their families and refuse to abort their daughters.
This is an atmosphere in which unhealthy balance sheets come under even greater pressure, and healthy investors refuse to engage.
And militias based in the city of Zintan continue to refuse to hand over Qaddafi's son, Saif al-Islam, to the central authorities.
Yet many refuse to give up screening.
Supporters of this view argue that General Stanculescu, unlike President Pinochet, was carrying out orders he could not refuse.
But they should not refuse to acknowledge that China's mission to turn a nation of 1.3 billion poor people into a developed country through peace and free trade is one of the great, honorable, and most difficult sagas in human history.

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