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Meaning Of Refuse
v. t.
To deny, as a request, demand, invitation, or command;
to decline to do or grant.
v. t.
To throw back, or cause to keep back (as the center, a
wing, or a flank), out of the regular aligment when troops ar/ about to
engage the enemy; as, to refuse the right wing while the left wing
attacks.
v. t.
To decline to accept; to reject; to deny the request or
petition of; as, to refuse a suitor.
v. t.
To disown.
v. i.
To deny compliance; not to comply.
n.
Refusal.
n.
That which is refused or rejected as useless; waste or
worthless matter.
a.
Refused; rejected; hence; left as unworthy of acceptance;
of no value; worthless.