refuse
IPA: rʌfjˈuz
noun
- Collectively, items or material that have been discarded; rubbish, garbage.
- (obsolete) refusal
verb
- (transitive) To decline (a request or demand).
- (intransitive) To decline a request or demand, forbear; to withhold permission.
- (military) 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.
- (obsolete, transitive) To disown.
- To melt again.
adjective
- Discarded, rejected.
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Examples of "refuse" in Sentences
- He has refused to quit.
- He refused to wear shroud.
- He refused to answer posers.
- The faculty refused the demands.
- The publishers refused the request.
- In the end, Anamika politely refuses.
- But the student refused the handshake.
- Burke refused to participate in the sham.
- Did Mister Somin refuse to answer question #9, the racial profile question?
- Yet politicians like Senator McCain refuse to open their minds to alternatives.
- Each swirling mass of refuse is massive and collects trash from all over the world.
- Is it that changes in refuse collection mean there are more bins outside houses to be scavenged.
- If oil, paint or animal refuse is spilled, someone will sprinkle dirt over the slick, smelly or gummy spot.
- If someone asks you to stop, puts their hand in front of the camera and looks clearly uncomfortable when you refuse is that not a blatant violation of their privacy?
- SB 387 redefines loose material! in Transportation Code Chapter 725 by adding the term refuse which is defined as trash! tmj_orl_transp Hiring: director, transportation - CHEP (Orlando,
- Said to be twice the size of the State of Texas and comprised of about 3.5 million tons of plastic shopping bags and random pieces of trash, most of this lightweight and buoyant refuse is discarded onshore and carried out by wind and currents.
- Apple -- which has mightily resisted tampering in any way with its 99 cent price point for tracks -- said that if the rate hike goes through and the labels refuse to absorb the entire resulting increase, the iTunes music store will become unprofitable.
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