Refuse synonyms and antonyms
rĭ-fyo͝oz'
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(Physiol.) To fail to accept immunologically (a part or organ grafted or transplanted into the body)
(By extension) To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.
(Idiomatic) To reposition by turning, flipping, etc. in a downward direction.
accept (related)
(Intransitive) To receive something willingly.
To refuse to acknowledge as one's own; disown; repudiate
To refuse; to offer sudden or harsh resistance; to turn down or shut out.
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Ignore is defined as to deliberately disregard, or to avoid noticing.
beg to be excused
To deduct (withholding tax) from an employee's salary.
turn thumbs down on
food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)
allow (antonym)
To let do or happen; permit:
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not anticipate
(Intransitive) To delay; to pause; to suspend proceedings or judgment in view of a doubt or difficulty; to hesitate; to put off the determination or conclusion of an affair.
To promise or affirm earnestly, as after being doubted:
To void or annul a judicial decision, order, and so on, usually on a motion to set aside by the party that is affected detrimentally and based upon some irregularity in the original proceeding.
(Idiomatic) To delay commencing (an action until some specified time or event has passed).
lend oneself (antonym)
show unwillingness towards
Worthless material.
A waste land; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert.
Scraps or remains; residue:
To repel is defined as to hold off, refuse to accept or reject.
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To forbid is defined as to order that something not occur, or to prevent something from occurring.
have no plans to
To recall or remove a motion from consideration in parliamentary procedure.
send regrets
cut out of the budget
To have or express an unfavorable opinion of; consider (something) wrong; condemn
turn one's back on
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To refuse or reject as wrong or disgraceful
turn thumbs down
To stay away from; not go to:
(Rare) To escape; get away
To avoid (a blow, for example) by moving or shifting quickly aside.
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turn from
To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles.
make one's excuses
To feel sorry, disappointed, distressed, or remorseful about:
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not budge
not budget
not care to
refuse to receive
not be at home to
disaccord with
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make excuses
not buy
turn a deaf ear to
consent (antonym)
To give assent, as to the proposal of another; agree:
trash (related)
A container into which things are discarded.
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To discard as useless or sell to be reused as parts; scrap.
To repulse is to reject someone, to be disgusted by something, or to drive someone away.
(Of a project or plan) To stop working on indefinitely.
The vitreous mass left as a residue by the smelting of metallic ore. It consists mostly of the siliceous and aluminous impurities from the iron ore.
possessions (antonym)
Plural form of possession
ok (antonym)
OK is defined as to approve.
offer (antonym)
To put in opposition to; to manifest in an offensive way; to threaten.
grant (antonym)
Grant is defined as to give something that has been requested to someone.
sanction (antonym)
To sanction is for a recognized authority to give approval to something.
(Soccer) To give someone a red card; to send off
unwilling (related)
say no
approve (antonym)
To consent to officially or formally; confirm or sanction:
refusal (related)
fail (related)
compel (related)
oblige (related)
reluctant (related)
i-refuse (related)
at liberty (related)
refusing (related)
Synonym Study
- To spurn is to refuse or reject with contempt or disdain she spurned his attentions
- Repudiate implies the disowning, disavowal, or casting off with condemnation of a person or thing as having no authority, worth, validity, truth, etc. to repudiate the claims of faith healers
- Reject stresses a negative or antagonistic attitude and implies positive refusal to accept, use, believe, etc. they rejected the damaged goods
- Decline implies courtesy in expressing one's nonacceptance of an invitation, proposal, etc. he declined the nomination
- Refuse is a direct, sometimes even blunt term, implying an emphatic denial of a request, demand, etc. to refuse a person money, to refuse permission
Find another word for refuse. In this page you can discover 96 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for refuse, like: reject, decline, turn down, garbage, accept, deny, rebuff, scraps, spurn, ignore and beg to be excused.
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