1. (v. t.) To deny, as a request, demand, invitation, or command; to decline to do or grant.

2. (v. t.) To throw back, or cause to keep back (as the center, a wing, or a flank), out of the regular alignment when troops are about to engage the enemy; as, to refuse the right wing while the left wing attacks.

3. (v. t.) To decline to accept; to reject; to deny the request or petition of; as, to refuse a suitor.

4. (v. t.) To disown.

5. (v. i.) To deny compliance; not to comply.

6. (n.) Refusal.

7. (n.) That which is refused or rejected as useless; waste or worthless matter.

8. (a.) Refused; rejected; hence; left as unworthy of acceptance; of no value; worthless.

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