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(v)
(transitive) To decline (a request or demand).
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(transitive) To travel across, to go through, to pass through, particularly under difficult conditions.
To refuse to allow.
(transitive) To reject the truth or validity of; to deny.
(n)
A denial of knowledge, relationship, or responsibility towards something or someone.
(transitive) To strongly and solemnly refuse to own or acknowledge; to deny responsibility for, approbation of, and the like.
(transitive) To refuse to accept; to forswear.
The act of refusing.
To make invalid. Especially applied to contract law.
(transitive) To disallow; to proscribe.
The act of rejecting.
To make of no use or value; to cancel out.
A refusal or failure to provide or grant something that is requested or desired.
(transitive) To forbid, disallow, or proscribe officially; to make illegal or illicit.
To deny the existence, evidence, or truth of; to contradict.
(transitive) To refuse to own, or to refuse to acknowledge one’s own.
(transitive) To act contrary to an order; to fail to conform to a regulation or obligation.
(transitive) To prevent something from happening.
(transitive) To renounce or deny something, especially under oath.
(intransitive) Refrain from (something or doing something); keep from doing, especially an indulgence.
(transitive) To remove the possibility of; to rule out; to prevent or exclude; to render impossible.
(transitive) To declare illegal.
(intransitive) To break a promise or commitment; to go back on one's word. [(often) with on]
(transitive, formal) To say something in contradiction to.
(uncountable) The act of negating something.
(transitive) To prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; to refute.
(intransitive) To oppose; to refuse to accept.
(transitive) To keep (information, assent etc) to oneself rather than revealing it.
(transitive) To bar (someone or something) from entering; to keep out.
(transitive) To prove (something) to be false or incorrect.
(transitive) To give up, resign, surrender.
(uncountable) The state of being deprived; lack.
To deny the truth of something, especially by presenting arguments that disprove it.
(transitive) To stop (an outcome); to keep from (doing something).
(intransitive) To fail to agree; to have a different opinion or belief.
(transitive) To send (someone or something) into exile.
To attempt to stop the progression of; to resist or antagonize by physical means, or by arguments, etc.; to contend against.
To deny the truth or validity of (a statement or statements).
(transitive) To strip, deprive, or dispossess (someone) of something (such as a right, passion, privilege, or prejudice).
(transitive) Used with “of”, to take something away from (someone) and keep it away; to deny someone something.
To deliberately not listen or pay attention to.
(intransitive) To be unsuccessful.
(transitive) To ignore; to pay no attention to.
To have or express an unfavorable opinion.
(transitive) To discharge; to end the employment or service of.
(transitive) To make difficult to accomplish; to act as an obstacle; to frustrate.
(transitive) To hide something from view or from public knowledge, to try to keep something secret.
(transitive) To get in the way of; to hinder.
(transitive) To refuse to obey.
(transitive) To expel; to remove.
(transitive) To hold in or hold back; to keep in check; restrain.
(transitive) To fail to care for or attend to something.
(transitive) To draw or pull (something) away or back from its original position or situation.
(transitive) To dispute, to argue about (something).
(ambitransitive) To be undecided about; to lack confidence in; to disbelieve, to question.
(intransitive) To cease moving.
(intransitive) To contend.
(intransitive) to contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another.
(intransitive) To debate, disagree, or discuss opposing or differing viewpoints; to controvert; to wrangle.
(transitive) To invite (someone) to take part in a competition.
(transitive) To make ineffective; to neutralize; to negate.
(intransitive or with 'that' clause or 'to' infinitive) To speak or behave so as to give a false or simulated appearance.
(transitive) To change the appearance of (a person or thing) so as to hide, or to assume an identity.
(transitive) To choose not to do something; refuse, forbear, refrain.
(transitive) To turn something around so that it faces the opposite direction or runs in the opposite sequence.
(transitive) To steal from, especially using force or violence.
(intransitive) To die because of lack of food or of not eating.
(transitive) To prohibit; to interdict; to proscribe; to forbid or block from participation.
(transitive) To rule or determine in a contrary way; to decide against; to abrogate or alter.
(transitive) To allow to enter; to grant entrance (to), whether into a place, into the mind, or into consideration
(transitive) To admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in.
(transitive) To put (something) in a place where it will be out of sight or harder to discover.
(transitive) To match (something or someone which one currently perceives) to a memory of some previous encounter with the same person or thing.
(transitive) To interpret, give an interpretation or rendition of.
To fail to notice; to look over and beyond (anything) without seeing it.
(transitive) To pronounce.
(chiefly transitive) To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
(transitive) To clean with a brush.
(transitive) To fill or obstruct (something) so that it is not possible to pass.
(transitive) To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.
A female given name.
(N)
(also known as the Refused) a Swedish hardcore punk band originating from Umeå and formed in 1991.
an animated surrealist short comedy film directed by Don Hertzfeldt that was released in 2000.
(transitive) To completely renounce claims to; to deny ownership of or responsibility for
(transitive) To deny (oneself something); to renounce or give up (a right, a power, a claim, a privilege, a convenience).
A political right to disapprove of (and thereby stop) the process of a decision, a law etc.
A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
A thing that has physical existence but is not alive.
To assert positively; to tell with confidence; to aver; to maintain as true.
(transitive) To de-emphasize; to present or portray as less important or consequential.
To declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively.