refuse — Dizionario inglese

Aggettivo

1. Discarded, rejected.

Sostantivo

1. Collectively, items or material that have been discarded; rubbish, garbage.

   Uso

   • non numerabile

   Sinonimi

   discards

Verbo

1. To decline (a request or demand).

   Uso

   • transitivo

   Esempi

   My request for a pay rise was refused.

   Altri esempi (1)

   After the death of his [Verney's] first wife, he proposed to Florence Nightingale but she refused him. Later he married her sister, and for many years Claydon was Miss Nightingale's second home.

2. To decline a request or demand, forbear; to withhold permission.

   Uso

   • intransitivo

   Esempi

   I refuse to listen to this nonsense any more.

   I asked the star if I could have her autograph, but she refused.

   Altri esempi (6)

   If ye refuse […] ye shall be devoured with the sword.

   The U. N. sent a commission to arrange for election of a Korean government. Russia and her satellites declined to cooperate with this Commission. Russia refused to let the Commission hold an election in north Korea, or even to enter north Korea. In southern Korea Leftist parties refused to meet with the Commission.

   Eventually, the railway opened on Monday, December 14, 1896, with a universal fare of 1d. collected at the turnstiles, and conditions were immediately chaotic, as many passengers travelled round and round, and refused to leave the cars.

   City were outclassed thereafter and Roberto Mancini said that substitute Carlos Tevez refused to play.

   Trump has explicitly refused to deal with the European Commission, seeking instead to conduct bilateral relations with individual EU countries.

   My thoughts are disturbed by a man and pooch trying to get off the front of the train. Despite hitting the door button, they refused to open.

3. To withhold (something) from (someone); to not give it to them or to bar them from having it.

   Uso

   • ditransitivo

   Esempi

   Altri esempi (1)

   If we bang or scream they will spray us with some pepper or something else that's in an aeresol ^([sic]) can, and they wear gas masks, while the rest of us have to breathe the fumes in, and it makes us very sick and they refuse us medical treatment.

4. To throw back, or cause to keep back (as the centre, a wing, or a flank), out of the regular alignment when troops are about to engage the enemy.

   Esempi

   to refuse the right wing while the left wing attacks

5. To disown.

   Uso

   • obsoleto
   • transitivo

   Esempi

   Refuse thy name.

Sostantivo

1. refusal

   Uso

   • obsoleto

   Esempi

   This ſpoken, readie with a proud refuſe [...]

Verbo

1. To fuse again, as with, or after, heating or melting.

   Parole correlate

   refusionreinfuserejoinreweld

Sostantivo

1. food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)

   Sinonimi

   garbagefood wastescraps

   Termini più generali

   wastewaste materialwaste matterwaste product

Verbo

1. show unwillingness towards

   Sinonimi

   decline

   Contrari

   accept

   Termini più generali

   reactrespond

   Esempi

   he declined to join the group on a hike

2. not accept as true

   Sinonimi

   rejectpass upturn downdecline

   Contrari

   accept

   Termini più generali

   evaluatepass judgmentjudge

   Esempi

   He refused to accept what she said

3. elude, especially in a baffling way

   Sinonimi

   defyresist

   Termini più generali

   eludeescape

   Esempi

   This behavior defies explanation

4. refuse to let have

   Sinonimi

   deny

   Termini più generali

   keephold on

   Esempi

   She denies me every pleasure

   he denies her her weekly allowance

5. resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ

   Sinonimi

   resistreject

   Termini più generali

   reactrespond

   Esempi

   His body rejected the liver of the donor

6. refuse entrance or membership

   Sinonimi

   rejectturn downturn away

   Termini più generali

   deny

   Esempi

   They turned away hundreds of fans

   Black people were often rejected by country clubs