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What (who) is Refuse - definition

UNWANTED OR UNUSABLE MATERIAL

Refuse; Wastes; Environmental waste; Mixed waste; Utter rubbish; Trash (material); Wastefulness; Wasteful; Waste materials; Prodigality; Wasteproduct; Waste-product; Waste product; Waste products; Waste-products; Wasteproducts; Environmental impact of waste disposal; Composite waste; Waste generation

refuse

I. v. a.

1.

Deny, decline.

2.

Reject, repudiate, exclude, repel, rebuff, decline.

II. n.

Dross, scum, dregs, sediment, lees, draff, recrement, rubbish, trash, offscum, offscouring, scoria, slag, offal, garbage, waste matter.

III. a.

Worthless, waste, refused, rejected.

refuse

I

n. (BE) to collect the refuse (see also garbage, trash)

II

v.

1) to refuse categorically, completely, outright, point-blank

2) (E) she refused to see him

3) (O; can be used with one object) he refused them nothing

refuse

(refusing, refused)

Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.

1.

If you refuse to do something, you deliberately do not do it, or you say firmly that you will not do it.

He refused to comment after the trial...

He expects me to stay on here and I can hardly refuse.

VERB: V to-inf, V

2.

If someone refuses you something, they do not give it to you or do not allow you to have it.

The United States has refused him a visa...

The town council had refused permission for the march.

VERB: V n n, V n

3.

If you refuse something that is offered to you, you do not accept it.

The patient has the right to refuse treatment.

= turn down

VERB: V n

4.

Refuse consists of the rubbish and all the things that are not wanted in a house, shop, or factory, and that are regularly thrown away; used mainly in official language.

The District Council made a weekly collection of refuse.

= waste, rubbish

N-UNCOUNT

Wikipedia

Waste

Waste (or wastes) are unwanted or unusable materials. Waste is any substance discarded after primary use, or is worthless, defective and of no use. A by-product, by contrast is a joint product of relatively minor economic value. A waste product may become a by-product, joint product or resource through an invention that raises a waste product's value above zero.

Examples include municipal solid waste (household trash/refuse), hazardous waste, wastewater (such as sewage, which contains bodily wastes (feces and urine) and surface runoff), radioactive waste, and others.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste

Examples of use of Refuse

1. I am worried that Hamas will refuse to negotiate; that it will refuse to recognize Israel.

2. Jean would refuse to allow Jamie to refuse to come to the wedding.

3. If they refuse, councils may "simply refuse the application regardless of its merits," says the CBI.

4. "I refuse participating in this and I refuse all the lawyers operating on my behalf," Hamdan said.

5. When parents split up, children are further disadvantaged by mothers who refuse access, or by fathers who refuse support.