Definition 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.