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To deny, as a request, demand, invitation, or command;
to decline to do or grant. |
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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. |
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To decline to accept; to reject; to deny the request or
petition of; as, to refuse a suitor. |
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To disown. |
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To deny compliance; not to comply. |
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Refusal. |
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That which is refused or rejected as useless; waste or
worthless matter. |
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Refused; rejected; hence; left as unworthy of acceptance;
of no value; worthless. |