Word Meanings - REFUSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To throw back, or cause to keep back (as the center, a wing, or a flank), out of the regular aligment when troops aras, to refuse the right wing while the left wing attacks. 3. To decline to accept; to reject; to deny the request or petition of;

Additional info about word: REFUSE

To throw back, or cause to keep back (as the center, a wing, or a flank), out of the regular aligment when troops aras, to refuse the right wing while the left wing attacks. 3. To decline to accept; to reject; to deny the request or petition of; as, to refuse a suitor. The cunning workman never doth refuse The meanest tool that he may chance to use. Herbert. 4. To disown. "Refuse thy name." Shak. (more info) to refuse, v. freq. of L. refundere to pour back, give back, restore , or. fr. L. recusare to decline, refuse cf. Accuse, Ruse), influenced by L. refutare to drive back, repel, 1. To deny, as a request, demand, invitation, or command; to decline to do or grant. That never yet refused your hest. Chaucer.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of REFUSE)

• Abstain
• Refrain
• forbear
• refuse
• demur
• avoid
• cease
• stop
• keep back
• desist
• discontinue
• withhold
• scruple
• Deny
• Refuse
• reject
• negative
• contradict
• gainsay
• disclaim
• disavow
• disown
• oppose
• Dregs
• sediment
• offal
• lees
• offscouring
• dross
• trash
• Lumber
• Trash
• rubbish
• Reject
• Repel
• renounce
• throw by
• castaway
• repudiate
• decline
• discard
• exclude

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of REFUSE)

• Clear
• disencumber
• utilize
• economize
• Grant
• afford
• yield
• concede
• acquiesce

Related words: (words related to REFUSE)

• REPELLENCE; REPELLENCY
  The principle of repulsion; the quality or capacity of repelling; repulsion.
• DEMURE
  good manners); de of + murs, mours, meurs, mors, F. m, fr. L. mores manners, morals ; or more prob. fr. OF. meür, F. mûr mature, ripe in a phrase preceded by de, as de 1. Of sober or serious mien; composed and decorous in bearing; of modest
• LUMBERMAN
  One who is engaged in lumbering as a business or employment.
• CONTRADICTABLE
  Capable of being contradicting.
• LUMBERING
  The business of cutting or getting timber or logs from the forest for lumber.
• CLEARLY
  In a clear manner.
• CLEARER
  A tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, clears. Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding. Addison.
• CONTRADICTIVE
  Contradictory; inconsistent. -- Con`tra*dict"ive*ly, adv..
• ABSTAIN
  To hinder; to withhold. Whether he abstain men from marrying. Milton.
• DISAVOWANCE
  Disavowal. South.
• DROSS
  1. The scum or refuse matter which is thrown off, or falls from, metals in smelting the ore, or in the process of melting; recrement. 2. Rust of metals. Addison. 3. Waste matter; any worthless matter separated from the better part; leavings;
• GAINSAY
  To contradict; to deny; to controvert; to dispute; to forbid. I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist. Luke xxi. 15. The just gods gainsay That any drop thou borrow'dst from thy mother,
• DISENCUMBER
  To free from encumbrance, or from anything which clogs, impedes, or obstructs; to disburden. Owen. I have disencumbered myself from rhyme. Dryden.
• REPELLENT
  A remedy to repel from a tumefied part the fluids which render it tumid. Dunglison. 3. A kind of waterproof cloth. Knight. (more info) 1. That which repels.
• DISAVOWMENT
  Disavowal. Wotton.
• DISAVOWER
  One who disavows.
• NEGATIVENESS; NEGATIVITY
  The quality or state of being negative.
• YIELDABLE
  Disposed to yield or comply. -- Yield"a*ble*ness, n. Bp. Hall.
• THROW
  Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe. Spenser. Dryden.
• YIELDANCE
  1. The act of producing; yield; as, the yieldance of the earth. Bp. Hall. 2. The act of yielding; concession. South.
• YIELD
  pay, give, restore, make an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, OS. geldan, D. gelden to cost, to be worth, G. gelten, OHG. geltan to pay, restore, make an offering, be worth, Icel. gjalda to pay, give up, Dan. gielde to be worth, Sw. gälla to be
• NEGATIVE
  Asserting absence of connection between a subject and a predicate; as, a negative proposition. (more info) 1. Denying; implying, containing, or asserting denial, negation or refusal; returning the answer no to an inquiry or request; refusing
• IMMIGRANT
  One who immigrates; one who comes to a country for the purpose of permanent residence; -- correlative of emigrant. Syn. -- See Emigrant.
• ECONOMIZE
  To manage with economy; to use with prudence; to expend with frugality; as, to economize one's income. Expenses in the city were to be economized. Jowett . Calculating how to economize time. W. Irving.
• POLYNUCLEAR
  Containing many nuclei.
• DISCONTINUE
  To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off. Set up their conventicles again, which had been discontinued. Bp. Burnet. I have discontinued school
• SLUMBERY
  Sleepy. Chaucer.
• FLAGRANT
  1. Flaming; inflamed; glowing; burning; ardent. The beadle's lash still flagrant on their back. Prior. A young man yet flagrant from the lash of the executioner or the beadle. De Quincey. Flagrant desires and affections. Hooker. 2. Actually in
• MISTHROW
  To throw wrongly.