Synonym: decline, garbage, junk, litter, rebuff, reject, rubbish, rubble, trash, waste. Antonym: accept. Similar words: defuse, refuge, refute, refund, refugee, infuse, confuse, confused. Meaning: [rɪ'fjuːz] 
n. food that is discarded (as from a kitchen). v. 1. show unwillingness towards 2. refuse to accept 3. elude, especially in a baffling way 4. refuse to let have 5. resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ 6. refuse entrance or membership.
n. food that is discarded (as from a kitchen). v. 1. show unwillingness towards 2. refuse to accept 3. elude, especially in a baffling way 4. refuse to let have 5. resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ 6. refuse entrance or membership. 
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241) Individually and collectively, they refuse to allow us to be foreigners through our worst pain.
242) Very few colleges these days refuse admission on grounds of age alone.
243) It's not easy taking my problems one at a time when they refuse to get in line. Ashleigh Brilliant 
244) Men are blind to their weaknesses or defects, and refuse to admit their faults or mistakes voluntarily and gracefully. Dr T.P.Chia
245) Successful people dare to fail but refuse to be defeated by failure. The keep changing themselves to face new difficulties and obstacles, and in the end win out handsomely. Dr T.P.Chia
246) If the adventurers refuse to help, the Ghost will curse them for their callousness and attack.
247) And two, you refuse to help in any way beyond sending out checks every so often.
248) About 9 million refuse to acknowledge their hearing loss or refuse treatment.
249) Am I wrong to refuse to capitulate to this tawdry behaviour?
250) It’s a very funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best[sentencedict.com], you very often get it. W. Somerset Maugham
251) If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you've made, if they don't realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go. Steve Maraboli
252) Will you refuse to answer the phone if there is no number on your display?
253) I refuse to allow you to inspect my cellars simply because you have seen my young sister carrying a torch.
254) In times of war, don't touch the guns; stay as a human! Always refuse to be a killer! Mehmet Murat ildan
255) The Parish council would, therefore, strongly urge your committee to refuse this application.
256) She was offering them cups of tea and it was churlish to refuse.
257) Repeated court action to evict the protesters has failed: they refuse to give their names and origins.
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258) If the scientists could not retain their scientific autonomy, Oppenheimer told Washington, some would refuse to join the project.
259) In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn't danced on television. Erma Bombeck
260) It may easily be objected that if he had wished to avoid becoming archbishop he had simply to refuse.
261) Children can be notoriously careless with their glasses or obstinately refuse to wear them.
262) Should she confess all and refuse to attend at Mrs Tiverton's morning do?
More similar words: defuse, refuge, refute, refund, refugee, infuse, confuse, confused, effusive, transfuse, refer, reform, care for, refill, prefer, therefore, beef up, refer to, reflect, defunct, forceful, doleful, forefront, ruefully, befuddle, to the full, graceful, be full of, grateful, reference.