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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. 1transitive verb

    To deny, as a request, demand, invitation, or command; to decline to do or grant.

  2. 2transitive 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. 3transitive verb

    To decline to accept; to reject; to deny the request or petition of; as, to refuse a suitor.

  4. 4transitive verb

    To disown.

  5. 5intransitive verb

    To deny compliance; not to comply.

  6. 6noun

    Refusal.

  7. 7noun

    That which is refused or rejected as useless; waste or worthless matter.

  8. 8adjective

    Refused; rejected; hence; left as unworthy of acceptance; of no value; worthless.

  9. 9noun

    food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)

    Synonyms

    garbagescraps
  10. 10verb

    show unwillingness towards

    "he declined to join the group on a hike"

    Synonyms

    decline
  11. 11verb

    refuse to let have

    "She denies me every pleasure"

    "he denies her her weekly allowance"

    Synonyms

    deny
  12. 12verb

    refuse to accept

    "He refused my offer of hospitality"

    Synonyms

    declinereject
  13. 13verb

    refuse entrance or membership

    "They turned away hundreds of fans"

    "Black people were often rejected by country clubs"

    Synonyms

    reject
  14. 14verb

    elude, especially in a baffling way

    "This behavior defies explanation"

    Synonyms

    defyresist
  15. 15verb

    resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ

    "His body rejected the liver of the donor"

    Synonyms

    rejectresist

Synonyms

garbagescrapsdeclinedenyrejectdefyresist

Common word forms

refusedrefuserrefusesrefusing

Words from these letters

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