Definition of refuse

"refuse" in the noun sense

1. garbage, refuse, food waste, scraps

food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)

"refuse" in the verb sense

1. refuse, decline

show unwillingness towards

"he declined to join the group on a hike"

2. refuse, reject, pass up, turn down, decline

refuse to accept

"He refused my offer of hospitality"

3. defy, resist, refuse

elude, especially in a baffling way

"This behavior defies explanation"

4. deny, refuse

refuse to let have

"She denies me every pleasure"

"he denies her her weekly allowance"

5. resist, reject, refuse

resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ

"His body rejected the liver of the donor"

6. reject, turn down, turn away, refuse

refuse entrance or membership

"They turned away hundreds of fans"

"Black people were often rejected by country clubs"

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Quotations for refuse

Things refuse to be mismanaged long. [ Carlyle ]

She most attracts who longest can refuse. [ Aaron Hill ]

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart,
How hard thy yoke! how cruel is thy dart!
Those escape thy anger who refuse thy sway,
And those are punished most who most obey. [ Prior ]

Shall he who soars, inspired by loftier views.
Life's little cares and little pains refuse?
Shall he not rather feel a double share
Of mortal woe, when doubly armed to bear? [ Crabbe ]

It pities me to refuse him that asks modestly. [ Proverb ]

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse. [ Madame Swetchine ]

Trust in that man's promise who dares to refuse that which he fears he cannot perform. [ Spurgeon ]

The vulgar refuse or crouch beneath their load; the brave bear theirs without repining. [ Mallet ]

The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed. [ Emerson ]

Parents deserve reproof when they refuse to benefit their children by severe discipline. [ Petronius Arbiter ]

Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely, and conciliate those you cannot conquer. [ Caleb C. Colton ]

Vulgar minds refuse to crouch beneath their load; the brave bear theirs without repining. [ Thomson ]

A coquette is more occupied with the homage we refuse her, than with that we bestow upon her. [ A. Dupuy ]

It ill corresponds with a profession of friendship to refuse assistance to a friend in time of need. [ G. Crabb ]

God has put into the heart of man love and the boldness to sue, and into the heart of woman fear and the courage to refuse. [ Marguerite de Valois ]

No great truth is allowed by Nature to be demonstrable to any person who, foreseeing its consequences, desires to refuse it. [ John Ruskin ]

The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

No lover should have the insolence to think of being accepted at once, nor should any girl have the cruelty to refuse at once, without severe reasons. [ John Ruskin ]

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset. [ Lytton ]

It is vain for you to expect, it is impudent for you to ask of God forgiveness on your own behalf, if you refuse to exercise this forgiving temper with respect to others. [ Hoadley ]

The means that heaven yields must be embraced, and not neglected; else, if heaven would, and we will not heaven's offer, we refuse the proffered means of succor and redress. [ William Shakespeare ]

Religion is again here, for whoever will piously struggle upward, and sacredly, sorrowfully refuse to speak lies, which indeed will mostly mean refuse to speak at all on that topic. [ Carlyle ]

A talisman that shall turn base metal into precious, Nature acknowledges not; but a talisman to turn base souls into noble, Nature has given us; and that is a philosopher's stone, but it is a stone which the builders refuse. [ John Ruskin ]

Superstition is the fear of a spirit whose passions and acts are those of a man, who is present in some places, and not in others; who makes some places holy, and not others; who is kind to one person, and unkind to another; who is pleased or angry according to the degree of attention you pay him, or praise you refuse him; who is hostile generally to human pleasure, but may be bribed by sacrificing a part of that pleasure into permitting the rest. [ John Ruskin ]

The first class of readers may be compared to an hour-glass, their reading being as the sand; it runs in and runs out, and leaves not a vestige behind. A second class resembles a sponge, which imbibes everything, and returns it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtier. A third class is like a jelly-bag, which allows all that is pure to pass away, and retains only the refuse and dregs. The fourth class may be compared to the slave of Golconda, who, casting aside all that is worthless, preserves only the pure gems. [ Coleridge ]

Gratitude is a link between justice and love. It discharges by means of affections those debts which the affections only can discharge, and which are so much the more sacred for this reason. Gratitude never springs up in the soil of selfishness, for self-interest in its eagerness to appropriate is unable to understand the impulses of generosity or to measure the true value of the gift. And, when we do understand it, we must love much to be willing to accept, we refuse when we love but little. Gratitude is the justice of the heart. [ Degerando ]

refuse in Scrabble®

The word refuse is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters refuse:

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refuse in Words With Friends™

The word refuse is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters refuse:

REFUSE
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All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word refuse

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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In refuse

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Words within the letters of refuse

2 letter words in refuse (3 words)

3 letter words in refuse (8 words)

5 letter words in refuse (5 words)

6 letter words in refuse (1 word)

Words containing the sequence refuse

Words that start with refuse (5 words)

Words with refuse in them (1 word)

Words that end with refuse (1 word)

Word Growth involving refuse

Shorter words in refuse

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Longer words containing refuse

refused

refuser refusers

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