refuse

refuse is a 6-letter English word with 15 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, adjective, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To deny, as a request, demand, invitation, or command; to decline to do or grant. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 10 · 15 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To deny, as a request, demand, invitation, or command; to decline to do or grant.
2. transitive verb. 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.
3. transitive verb. To decline to accept; to reject; to deny the request or petition of; as, to refuse a suitor.
4. transitive verb. To disown.
5. intransitive verb. To deny compliance; not to comply.
6. noun. Refusal.
7. noun. That which is refused or rejected as useless; waste or worthless matter.
8. adjective. Refused; rejected; hence; left as unworthy of acceptance; of no value; worthless.
9. noun. food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)

   Synonyms: garbage, scraps

10. verb. show unwillingness towards

    "he declined to join the group on a hike"

    Synonyms: decline

11. verb. refuse to let have

    "She denies me every pleasure"

    "he denies her her weekly allowance"

    Synonyms: deny

12. verb. refuse to accept

    "He refused my offer of hospitality"

    Synonyms: decline, reject

13. verb. refuse entrance or membership

    "They turned away hundreds of fans"

    "Black people were often rejected by country clubs"

    Synonyms: reject

14. verb. elude, especially in a baffling way

    "This behavior defies explanation"

    Synonyms: defy, resist

15. verb. resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ

    "His body rejected the liver of the donor"

    Synonyms: reject, resist

Synonyms

garbage, scraps, decline, deny, reject, defy, resist

Common word forms

refused, refuser, refuses, refusing

Words from these letters

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