Usually means: Declines to accept or do.
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We found 12 dictionaries that define the word refuses:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. refuses: Merriam-Webster
  2. refuses: Collins English Dictionary
  3. refuses: Vocabulary.com
  4. Refuses, refuses: Wordnik
  5. refuses: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. refuses: Wiktionary
  7. refuses: Dictionary.com
  8. refuses: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. refuses: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. refuses: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. refuses: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. refuses: Idioms

(Note: See refuse as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (refuse)

adjective:  Discarded, rejected.
noun:  Collectively, items or material that have been discarded; rubbish, garbage.
verb:  (transitive) To decline (a request or demand).
verb:  (intransitive) To decline a request or demand, forbear; to withhold permission.
verb:  (ditransitive) To withhold (something) from (someone); to not give it to them or to bar them from having it.
verb:  (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.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To disown.
noun:  (obsolete) refusal
verb:  To fuse again, as with, or after, heating or melting.
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