refuse

About 13.14 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Discarded, rejected.
2. noun Collectively, items or material that have been discarded; rubbish, garbage.
3. verb To decline (a request or demand).

   My request for a pay rise was refused.

4. verb To decline a request or demand, forbear; to withhold permission.

   I refuse to listen to this nonsense any more.

5. verb To withhold (something) from (someone); to not give it to them or to bar them from having it.
6. verb 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

7. verb To disown.
8. noun refusal

Similar words

turn down reject deny turn away resist defy decline pass up garbage food waste

Often followed by

to the a it of him and or his

Word family

refused refuser refusers refuses refusing