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.