Definition of "refuse" in English

adjective

1. Discarded, rejected.

noun

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

verb

1. (transitive) To decline (a request or demand).

   • My request for a pay rise was refused.

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

   • I refuse to listen to this nonsense any more.
   • I asked the star if I could have her autograph, but she refused.

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

4. (military) 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.

   • to refuse the right wing while the left wing attacks

5. (obsolete, transitive) To disown.

noun

1. (obsolete) refusal

verb

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