Synonyms of the word refuse


REFUSEDECLINE - DEFY - DENY - ELUDE - ESCAPE - GARBAGE - KEEP - REACT - REJECT - RESIST - RESPOND - SCRAPS - WASTE

refuse

  • adj. Discarded, rejected.
  • n. (Britain) Collectively, items or material that have been discarded; rubbish, garbage.
  • v. (transitive) To decline (a request or demand).
  • v. (intransitive) To decline a request or demand, forbear; to withhold permission.
  • v. (military) To throw back, or cause to keep back (as the centre, a wing, or a flank), out of the regular…
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To disown.
  • n. (obsolete) refusal.

decline

  • n. Downward movement, fall.
  • n. A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road.
  • n. A weakening.
  • n. A reduction or diminution of activity.
  • v. (intransitive) To move downwards, to fall, to drop.
  • v. (intransitive) To become weaker or worse.
  • v. (transitive) To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to decrease or diminish.
  • v. To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.
  • v. (transitive) To refuse, forbear.
  • v. (transitive, grammar, usually of substantives, adjectives and pronouns) To inflect for case, number and…
  • v. (by extension) To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.
  • v. (American football, Canadian football) To reject a penalty against the opposing team, usually because…

defy

  • n. (obsolete) A challenge.
  • v. To renounce or dissolve all bonds of affiance, faith, or obligation with; to reject, refuse, or renounce.
  • v. To challenge (someone) to do something difficult or impossible.
  • v. To refuse to obey.
  • v. To not conform to or follow a pattern, set of rules or expectations.

deny

  • v. (transitive) To not allow.
  • v. (transitive) To assert that something is not true.
  • v. (transitive) To disallow.
  • v. (transitive) to refuse to give or grant something to someone.
  • v. (sports, transitive) To prevent from scoring.
  • v. To disclaim connection with, responsibility for, etc.; to refuse to acknowledge; to disown; to abjure;…
  • v. (obsolete) To refuse (to do or accept something).

elude

  • v. (transitive) To evade, or escape from someone or something, especially by using cunning or skill.
  • v. (transitive) To shake off a pursuer; to give someone the slip.
  • v. (transitive) To escape understanding of; to be incomprehensible to.

escape

  • v. (intransitive) To get free, to free oneself.
  • v. (transitive) To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.
  • v. (intransitive) To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.
  • v. (transitive) To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by.
  • v. (transitive, computing) To cause (a single character, or all such characters in a string) to be interpreted…
  • v. (computing) To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.
  • n. The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.
  • n. (computing) escape key.
  • n. (programming) The text character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal).
  • n. (snooker) A successful shot from a snooker position.
  • n. (manufacturing) A defective product that is allowed to leave a manufacturing facility.
  • n. (obsolete) That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake, oversight, or transgression.
  • n. Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid, or an electric current through defective insulation.
  • n. (obsolete) A sally.
  • n. (architecture) An apophyge.

garbage

  • n. (obsolete) The bowels of an animal; refuse parts of flesh; offal.
  • n. Food waste material of any kind.
  • n. Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind.
  • n. A place or receptacle for waste material.
  • n. Nonsense; gibberish.
  • n. (often attributively) Something or someone worthless.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To eviscerate.

keep

  • v. To continue in (a course or mode of action); not to intermit or fall from; to uphold or maintain.
  • v. (heading, transitive) To hold the status of something.
  • v. (heading, intransitive) To hold or be held in a state.
  • v. (obsolete) To wait for, keep watch for.
  • v. (intransitive, cricket) To act as wicket-keeper.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To take care; to be solicitous; to watch.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be in session; to take place.
  • v. (transitive) To observe; to adhere to; to fulfill; not to swerve from or violate.
  • v. (transitive, dated) To confine oneself to; not to quit; to remain in.
  • v. (transitive, dated, by extension) To visit (a place) often; to frequent.
  • n. (obsolete) Care, notice.
  • n. (historical) The main tower of a castle or fortress, located within the castle walls. (According to, the…
  • n. The food or money required to keep someone alive and healthy; one's support, maintenance.
  • n. The act or office of keeping; custody; guard; care; heed; charge.
  • n. The state of being kept; hence, the resulting condition; case.
  • n. (obsolete) That which is kept in charge; a charge.
  • n. (engineering) A cap for holding something, such as a journal box, in place.

react

  • v. (transitive) To act or perform a second time; to do over again; to reenact.
  • v. (physics) To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force.
  • v. (chemistry, intransitive) To act upon each other; to exercise a reciprocal or a reverse effect, as two…
  • v. (chemistry, transitive) To cause chemical agents to react; to cause one chemical agent to react with another.

reject

  • v. (transitive) To refuse to accept.
  • v. (basketball) To block a shot, especially if it sends the ball off the court.
  • n. Something that is rejected.
  • n. (derogatory slang) An unpopular person.

resist

  • v. (transitive) To attempt to counter the actions or effects of.
  • v. (transitive) To withstand the actions of.
  • v. (intransitive) To oppose.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To be distasteful to.
  • n. A protective coating or covering.

respond

  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To say something in return; to answer; to reply.
  • v. (intransitive) To act in return; to exhibit some action or effect in return to a force or stimulus; to…
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To correspond with; to suit.
  • v. (transitive) To satisfy; to answer.
  • n. A response.
  • n. A versicle or short anthem chanted at intervals during the reading of a lection.
  • n. (architecture) A half-pillar, pilaster, or any corresponding device engaged in a wall to receive the impost…

scraps

  • n. plural of scrap, left over pieces.
  • v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of scrap.

waste

  • n. Excess of material, useless by-products or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.
  • n. Excrement or urine.
  • n. A waste land; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert.
  • n. A place that has been laid waste or destroyed.
  • n. A large tract of uncultivated land.
  • n. (historical) The part of the land of a manor (of whatever size) not used for cultivation or grazing, nowadays…
  • n. A vast expanse of water.
  • n. A disused mine or part of one.
  • n. The action or progress of wasting; extravagant consumption or ineffectual use.
  • n. Large abundance of something, specifically without it being used.
  • n. Gradual loss or decay.
  • n. A decaying of the body by disease; wasting away.
  • n. (rare) Destruction or devastation caused by war or natural disasters; See "to lay waste".
  • n. (law) A cause of action which may be brought by the owner of a future interest in property against the…
  • n. (geology) Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the…
  • adj. (now rare) Uncultivated, uninhabited.
  • adj. Barren; desert.
  • adj. Rejected as being defective; eliminated as being worthless; produced in excess.
  • adj. Superfluous; needless.
  • adj. Dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
  • adj. Unfortunate; disappointing.
  • v. (transitive) to devastate, destroy.
  • v. (transitive) To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly.
  • v. (transitive, slang) To kill; to murder.
  • v. (transitive) To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to…
  • v. (intransitive) Gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail.
  • v. (intransitive) To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value etc. gradually.
  • v. (law) To damage, impair, or injure (an estate, etc.) voluntarily, or by allowing the buildings, fences,…

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