refuse
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
refuse1 /rɪˈfjuːz/
▶verb indicate unwillingness to do something.
■ indicate unwillingness to accept or grant (something offered or requested).
■ (of a horse) decline to jump (a fence or other obstacle).
– derivatives
refusal noun,
refuser noun.
refusal noun,
refuser noun.
– origin ME: from OFr. refuser, prob. an alt. of L. recusare ‘to refuse’, influenced by refutare ‘refute’.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
refuse2 /ˈrɛfjuːs/
▶noun matter thrown away as worthless.
'refuse' also found in these Oxford entries:
bargepole
- baulk
- black
- boycott
- bump
- cleansing department
- collection
- compost heap
- Coventry
- deaf
- decline
- defy
- deny
- dice
- dig
- disallow
- disapprove
- disclaim
- discountenance
- dismiss
- disobey
- disown
- draff
- drainpipe
- dunghill
- dustbin
- dustcart
- dustman
- eye
- flock
- forbid
- forsake
- frass
- garbage
- garbology
- ground
- gun
- have
- hold
- jack
- jib
- kitchen midden
- know
- marc
- midden
- nolle prosequi
- none
- pigswill
- privilege
- raffle
