noun refusal.
2. refuse ·vt to disown.
3. refuse ·vi to deny compliance; not to comply.
4. refuse ·noun that which is refused or rejected as useless; waste or worthless matter.
5. refuse ·adj refused; rejected; hence; left as unworthy of acceptance; of no value; worthless.
6. refuse ·vt to deny, as a request, demand, invitation, or command; to decline to do or grant.
7. refuse ·vt to decline to accept; to reject; to deny the request or petition of; as, to refuse a suitor.
8. refuse ·vt to throw back, or cause to keep back (as the center, a wing, or a flank), out of the regular aligment when troops ar/ about to engage the enemy; as, to refuse the right wing while the left wing attacks.