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refuse

English

  1. 🔊 food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)
  2. 🔊 show unwillingness towards
    “he declined to join the group on a hike”
  3. 🔊 refuse to accept
    “He refused my offer of hospitality”
  4. 🔊 refuse to let have
    “She denies me every pleasure”
  5. 🔊 elude, especially in a baffling way
    “This behavior defies explanation”
  6. 🔊 resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ
    “His body rejected the liver of the donor”
  7. 🔊 refuse entrance or membership
    “They turned away hundreds of fans”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 negar to refuse
  2. 🔊 rebotar to refuse
  3. 🔊 rehusar to refuse
  4. 🔊 renunciar to refuse

Similar words

garbage food waste scraps decline deny reject pass up turn down decline reject turn down turn away defy resist resist reject abjure afterglow afterimage balance ban bar be unmoved be unwilling