[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

refuse \refuse"\, v. i.
   to deny compliance; not to comply.
   1913 webster

         too proud to ask, too humble to refuse.  --garth.
   1913 webster

         if ye refuse . . . ye shall be devoured with the sword.
                                                  --isa. i. 20.
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[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

refuse \refuse"\, n.
   refusal. obs. --fairfax.
   1913 webster

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

refuse \ref`use\ r?f"?s;277, n. f. refus refusal, also, that
   which is refused. see refuse to deny.
   that which is refused or rejected as useless; waste or
   worthless matter.
   1913 webster

   syn: dregs; sediment; scum; recrement; dross.
        1913 webster
see also:
refuse 

[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

refuse \refuse"\ r?f?z", v. t. imp.  p. p. refused
   -f?zd"; p. pr.  vb. n. refusing. f. refuser, either
   from assumed ll. refusare to refuse, v. freq. of l.
   refundere to pour back, give back, restore see refund to
   repay, or. fr. l. recusare to decline, refuse cf. accuse,
   ruse, influenced by l. refutare to drive back, repel,
   refute. cf. refute.
   1. to deny, as a request, demand, invitation, or command; to
      decline to do or grant.
      1913 webster

            that never yet refused your hest.     --chaucer.
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   2. mil. 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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   3. to decline to accept; to reject; to deny the request or
      petition of; as, to refuse a suitor.
      1913 webster

            the cunning workman never doth refuse
            the meanest tool that he may chance to use.
                                                  --herbert.
      1913 webster

   4. to disown. obs. "refuse thy name." --shak.
      1913 webster
see also:
refused refusing refund accuse ruse refute 

[5] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

refuse \ref"use\, a.
   refused; rejected; hence; left as unworthy of acceptance; of
   no value; worthless.
   1913 webster

         everything that was vile and refuse, that they
         destroyed utterly.                       --1. sam. xv.
                                                  9.
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[6] : WordNet (r) 2.0

refuse
     n : food that is discarded as from a kitchen syn: garbage,
         food waste, scraps
     v 1: show unwillingness towards; "he declined to join the group
          on a hike" syn: decline ant: accept
     2: refuse to accept; "he refused my offer of hospitality" syn:
         reject, pass up, turn down, decline ant: accept
     3: elude, especially in a baffling way; "this behavior defies
        explanation" syn: defy, resist ant: lend oneself
     4: refuse to let have; "she denies me every pleasure"; "he
        denies her her weekly allowance" syn: deny ant: allow
     5: resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign
        tissue or organ; "his body rejected the liver of the
        donor" syn: resist, reject
     6: refuse entrance or membership; "they turned away hundreds of
        fans"; "black people were often rejected by country clubs"
        syn: reject, turn down, turn away ant: admit
see also:
garbage food waste scraps decline accept reject 
pass up turn down defy resist lend oneself 
deny allow turn away admit 

[7] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

228 moby thesaurus words for "refuse":
   abjure, afterglow, afterimage, balance, ban, bar, be unmoved,
   be unwilling, beat back, beg off, bilge, bilgewater, bones,
   brush aside, brush off, butt, butt end, candle ends, carrion,
   castaway, castoff, chaff, chase, chase away, chase off, chuck,
   chuck out, collateral, contemn, contradict, culm, cut, deadwood,
   debar, debris, decline, decline to accept, deep six, deny,
   deprive of, derelict, despise, detritus, dirt, disagree, disallow,
   disapprove, discard, discarding, disclaim, discount, disdain,
   dishwater, dismiss, disown, disposal, disregard, dissent,
   ditchwater, dogie, draff, dregs, drive away, drive back, dross,
   dump, dumping, dust, dustheap, elimination, embargo, end, enjoin,
   except, exclude, exclude from, fag end, fend off, filings, flotsam,
   flotsam and jetsam, forbid, forswear, fossil, foundling, garbage,
   gash, hogwash, hold off, hold out against, holdover, husks, ignore,
   inhibit, interdict, jetsam, jettison, junk, junking, keep back,
   keep off, kelter, lagan, leavings, lees, leftovers, litter, lumber,
   muck, negate, negative, not allow, not buy, not consent,
   not hear of, not think of, odds and ends, offal, offscourings,
   orphan, orts, outlaw, pack off, parings, pass by, pass up, pelf,
   potsherds, preclude, prevent, prohibit, proscribe, push aside,
   push back, put back, rags, raspings, rebuff, recant,
   refuse consent, refuse to consider, reject, rejectamenta,
   rejection, relics, remainder, remains, remnant, removal, renounce,
   repel, repress, reprobate, repudiate, repulse, residue, residuum,
   resist entreaty, resist persuasion, rest, riffraff, roach, rubbish,
   ruins, rule out, rump, sawdust, say nay, say no, say no to,
   scourings, scout, scrap iron, scrapping, scraps, scum, scurf,
   send away, send off, send packing, sewage, sewerage, shadow,
   shards, shavings, shove away, shut out, slack, slag, slop, slops,
   slough, snub, spurn, stand aloof, straw, stubble, stump, suppress,
   survival, sweepings, swill, taboo, tares, throw away, throw out,
   throwaway, thrust back, trace, trash, turn away, turn back,
   turn down, turn out, vestige, vote nay, vote negatively, waif,
   waifs and strays, waive, ward off, wastage, waste, waste matter,
   wastepaper, wastrel, weeds, withhold

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