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(v)
(idiomatic) To refuse, decline, or deny.
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(transitive) To refuse to accept; to forswear.
(transitive) To assert that something is not true.
(transitive, figuratively) To refuse to admit someone or accept something.
(intransitive) To oppose; to refuse to accept.
(transitive) To refuse to obey.
(transitive) To choose not to do something; refuse, forbear, refrain.
(idiomatic, transitive) To refuse (not accept); forgo.
(transitive, chiefly US, Canada, obsolete) to eviscerate
(n)
food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)
The act of rejecting.
(transitive) To drive back (an assailant, advancing force etc.).
(transitive) To make ineligible for something.
(transitive) To refuse; to offer sudden or harsh resistance; to turn down or shut out.
To make of no use or value; to cancel out.
(transitive) To bar (someone or something) from entering; to keep out.
The act of refusing.
(transitive) To reject the truth or validity of; to deny.
(transitive) To give up or relinquish control of, to surrender or to give oneself over, or to yield to one's emotions.
To refuse to allow.
(transitive) Used with “of”, to take something away from (someone) and keep it away; to deny someone something.
(transitive) To give up, resign, surrender.
(transitive) To forbid, disallow, or proscribe officially; to make illegal or illicit.
(transitive) To discharge; to end the employment or service of.
(transitive) To expel; to remove.
(intransitive) Refrain from (something or doing something); keep from doing, especially an indulgence.
(transitive) To keep (information, assent etc) to oneself rather than revealing it.
(intransitive, with preposition "from") To stop oneself from some action or interference; to abstain; to eschew
The act of one who denies something; a denial.
(transitive) To throw away, to reject.
A refusal or failure to provide or grant something that is requested or desired.
(adj)
That is designed to be discarded rather than reused, refilled or repaired.
To deny the existence, evidence, or truth of; to contradict.
(intransitive) To be unsuccessful.
(transitive) To draw or pull (something) away or back from its original position or situation.
To have or express an unfavorable opinion.
(transitive) To prove (something) to be false or incorrect.
(transitive, law) To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forgo.
To attempt to stop the progression of; to resist or antagonize by physical means, or by arguments, etc.; to contend against.
State or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, opposite of success.
Excess of material, useless by-products, or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.
That which persists or remains following the removal or elimination of other elements.
(US) To discard.
(transitive, informal) To throw away.
The property of being unwilling.
(transitive, chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, colloquial) To criticize, to denigrate, to denounce, to disparage.
To make something become nothing; to reject or cancel.
To remove the layer of scum from (a liquid etc.).
(transitive) To remove dross from.
(transitive) To discard; to get rid of.
(transitive) To prohibit; to interdict; to proscribe; to forbid or block from participation.
To make a non-linear physical movement.
Dirt; foul matter; that which soils or defiles.
(transitive) To grant (someone) freedom or immunity from.
(intransitive) To choose; select.
(transitive) To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.
Rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed.
(transitive) To interpret, give an interpretation or rendition of.
(intransitive) To disagree with or oppose something or someone; (especially in a Court of Law) to raise an objection.
The dropping of litter.
The deduction of taxes from an employee's salary.
(Canada, US) A large, usually metal trash receptacle designed to be hoisted up by a garbage truck in order to be emptied.
(Commonwealth, Ireland, UK) A bin for holding rubbish until it can be collected; a garbage can.
(intransitive) To drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it (as discarding in public areas rather than trash receptacles).
(intransitive, computing, Internet) To send spam (i.e. unsolicited electronic messages.)
(by extension) Any debris or fragments of disintegrated material.
(N)
an animated surrealist short comedy film directed by Don Hertzfeldt that was released in 2000.
(ambitransitive) To reject disdainfully; contemn; scorn.
A political right to disapprove of (and thereby stop) the process of a decision, a law etc.
(intransitive) Chiefly followed by to, and sometimes by at or on: to object or be reluctant; to balk, to take exception.
To do without (something enjoyable); to relinquish.
(chiefly US) Alternative spelling of nay-say (“say no to; deny, disagree, or oppose”) [To speak negatively of something.]
(agriculture) An uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing.
Can not (be unable to).
Not willing; reluctant
(intransitive) To have enough courage (to do something).
Not able; lacking a certain ability.
Under an obligation to do something.
(transitive) To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave, hanker, or demand.
Not wanting to take some action; unwilling to do something.
Obtained forcefully, not naturally.
Averse, disinclined; reluctant, unwilling. Always followed by a verbal phrase.
(intransitive) To condescend; to do despite a perceived affront to one's dignity.
To deliberately not listen or pay attention to.
(transitive, catenative) To permit, to give permission to.
Driven; forced.