refusing

noun

Collectively, items or material that have been discarded; rubbish, garbage.

(obsolete) refusal

verb

(transitive) To decline (a request or demand).

(intransitive) To decline a request or demand, forbear; to withhold permission.

(ditransitive) To withhold (something) from (someone); to not give it to them or to bar them from having it.

(military) To throw back, or cause to keep back (as the centre, a wing, or a flank), out of the regular alignment when troops are about to engage the enemy.

To fuse again, as with, or after, heating or melting.

(obsolete, transitive) To disown.

adjective

Discarded, rejected.

Roots

rere- · Latin · back fundo-fus · Latin · pour

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