Crossword-Solution: REFUSE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Refuse | v. t. | To deny, as a request, demand, invitation, or command; to decline to do or grant. |
| Refuse | v. t. | 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. |
| Refuse | v. t. | To decline to accept; to reject; to deny the request or petition of; as, to refuse a suitor. |
| Refuse | v. t. | To disown. |
| Refuse | v. i. | To deny compliance; not to comply. |
| Refuse | n. | Refusal. |
| Refuse | n. | That which is refused or rejected as useless; waste or worthless matter. |
| Refuse | a. | Refused; rejected; hence; left as unworthy of acceptance; of no value; worthless. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AETRE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with REFUSE (5)
But I refuse to allow that dog to lord it in my nursery for an hour longer.” The children wept, and Nana ran to him beseechingly, but he waved her back.
Wonder not then, what God for you saw good If I refuse not, but convert, as you, To proper substance; time may come when men With Angels may participate, and find No inconvenient Diet, nor too light Fare: And from these corporal nutriments perhaps Your bodies may at last turn all to Spirit Improv’d by tract of time, and wingd ascend Ethereal, as wee, or may at choice Here or in Heav’nly Paradises dwell; If ye be found obedient, and retain Unalterably firm his love entire Whose progenie you are.
The Father, unwilling to grant, and yet afraid to refuse his request, hit upon this expedient to rid himself of his importunities.
She said more distinctly, “Will you leave me alone now? I don’t order it as a mistress—I ask it as a woman, and I expect you not to be so uncourteous as to refuse.” “Certainly I will, Miss Everdene,” said Gabriel, gently.
But UUNET isn't a player in the propagation wars, because it never refuses any traffic---it gets paid by the minute, after all; to refuse based on content would jeopardize its legal status as an enhanced service provider.
Quotes with REFUSE (3)
I refuse to give up on love and I refuse to lay down and die.
Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness — and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we’re being brainwashed to believe. The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling — their ideas, their version of history, the…
You see, we cannot draw lines and compartments and refuse to budge beyond them. Sometimes you have to use your failures as stepping-stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair.' He paused, considering what he had just said. 'Yes', he repeated. 'In the end, it's all a question of balance.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Onion, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 46 times in crossword archives (1974–2024).