Usually means: Decline to accept or submit.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word refuse:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. refuse: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. refuse, refuse: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. refuse, refuse: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. refuse: Collins English Dictionary
  5. refuse: Vocabulary.com
  6. Refuse, refuse: Wordnik
  7. refuse: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. refuse: Wiktionary
  9. refuse: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. refuse: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. refuse: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Refuse, refuse: Dictionary.com
  13. refuse (n.), refuse (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. refuse: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Refuse: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Refuse: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. refuse: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. refuse: Rhymezone
  19. Refuse: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. refuse: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. refuse: Free Dictionary
  22. refuse: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. refuse: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. refuse: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. refuse: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. refuse: Legal dictionary
  2. refuse: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. refuse: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. refuse: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. refuse: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. refuse: Archaeology Wordsmith

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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:  (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 melt again.

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