Definition of Refuse

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Refuse

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

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.

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

To disown.

To deny compliance; not to comply.

Refusal.

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

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

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Refuse Quotations

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.
Thomas Jefferson

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
Albert Einstein

Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.
Ronald Reagan

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.
Mark Twain

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.
Winston Churchill

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

What is true of the individual will be to-morrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.
Mohandas Gandhi

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.
Friedrich Nietzsche

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.
Helen Keller

Refuse Translations

refuse in Afrikaans is weier
refuse in Dutch is afwijzen, het verdommen, afkeuren
refuse in French is refusons, refusent, refuser, refusez
refuse in German is verweigern, abweisen
refuse in Italian is rifiutare, rifiutare
refuse in Latin is renuo, abnego, nolo, quisquiliae
refuse in Portuguese is recusar, recusa
refuse in Spanish is desecho, repeler, denegar, rehusar, declinar

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