Word Finder - refused

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To decline (a request or demand).

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My request for a pay rise was refused.

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

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I asked the star if I could have her autograph, but she refused.

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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.

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to refuse the right wing while the left wing attacks

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To disown.

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To melt again.

He refused to stay on his diet.

He refused to go to the doctor.

She almost refused but something about the look on his face made her hesitate.

She refused to tell you.

She said he had kicked her out, but refused to say why.

Kris looked at Rhyn, who refused to take the hint.

I just refused to return.

He refused to do stuff like that.

He didn't seem concerned that she had refused to go back.

She'd always been grateful to him for accepting her and her gift, but he'd always refused to tell her what exactly he was and how he seemed to be able to read her mind sometimes.

She refused to admit he was right.

Tears burned her eyes, but she refused to let emotion take over again.

Her breaths came in short gasps, but she refused to back down.

He slammed the Yukon's door closed as he slid into the back seat beside her and pinned her with a look she refused to meet.

No one wanted a dying girlfriend, especially when she'd flat out refused to marry him.

His chest felt tight, but he refused to admit his pain.

They refused to do so, citing their promise to tipsters of absolute confidentiality.

He refused to release her, instead pushing her into a painful run up the beach, over the sandbags, and out of immediate danger.

While he never owned up to it, Betsy and I knew he retained records of ventures into the deeper past, where Howie refused to go.

She refused to back down, unwilling to let his attempt to intimidate her work.

He refused to do as we said and kill his target.

He had been, in the first blush of his Frankfort disaster, refused, or at least not granted, permission even to enter France proper.

Abdur Rahman and his successor Habibullah steadfastly refused the offer of British engineers to strengthen its defences; and though the Afghans themselves have occasionally undertaken repairs, it is doubtful whether the old walls of Herat are maintained in a state of efficiency.

Adrian, between whom and the Lombards other causes of quarrel existed, refused to assent to this demand, and when Desiderius invaded the papal territories he appealed to the Frankish king for help. Charles, who was at the moment engaged in his first Saxon campaign, expostulated with Desiderius; but when such mild measures proved useless he led his forces across the Alps in 773.

The asiarch however refused, urging as an excuse that the games were over.

She refused to go away and her father's fury broke over her in a terrible storm.

On the other hand, Katie had flatly refused to provide some information because she said Alex wouldn't want her to tell.

He almost refused before he realized he had no choice, if he wanted to help Yully survive and Damian defeat the Other.

Darkness lingered at the edges of her mind but refused to take her.

He flat out refused to go out after dark last night.

They'd floated away from the church of his slumber and refused to make a second appearance.

She had refused because money had no part in her attraction to him – or maybe because she was afraid he would think that was why she married him.

Though the majority of the rabbis looked for no such deliverer and refused to admit his claims, Barcochebas drew the people after him to struggle for their national independence.

The dukedom offered him by George II., whose ill-will his fine tact had overcome, was refused.

An attempt was made to bribe Frederick into consenting to this arrangement, but being backed up by his people he refused, and was afterwards crowned king of Sicily.

In August 1711, at the age of seventeen, he came home, and the usual battle followed between a son who desired no profession but literature and a father who refused to consider literature a profession at all.

He refused to sign a convention requiring that he should perform his duties only under the authority of the military governor of Brussels, and reserved to himself the rights of a free agent.

In 1648 he refused to take part in the English expedition of the "engagers," the enterprise not having the sanction of the Kirk.

With Nepet and ten other Latin colonies it refused further help in the Hannibalic War in 209 B.C. Its importance as a fortress explains, according to Festus, the proverb Sutrium ire, of one who goes on important business, as it occurs in Plautus.

Giuliano was offered and refused the duchy of Urbino.

Meleager, who withdrew, and refused to fight until the Curetes were on the point of capturing the city of Calydon.

He had refused the bishopric of Maine when in 1868 he was elected to the diocese of central New York.

In 1866, 1867 and 1869, respectively, the legislature refused to ratify the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the Federal constitution.

Bad feeling had existed for some time between Charles and Carloman, and when Charles early in 769 was called upon to suppress a rising in Aquitaine, his brother refused to afford him any assistance.

But Constance refused to give up to the Swiss the right of exercising criminal jurisdiction in the Thurgau, which it had obtained from the emperor in 1417, while the Austrians, having bought Bregenz (in two parts, 1451 and 1523), were very desirous of securing the well-placed city for themselves.

He was minister of finance from the, 8th of June to the 9th of November 1799, but refused office under the Consulate and the Empire.

Tiberius appears to have received the news with indifference, if not with satisfaction; he absented himself from the funeral, and refused to allow her apotheosis; her will was suppressed for a long time and only carried out, and the legacies paid, by Caligula.

Abu-Bekr had scarcely assumed his new position (632), under the title Califet-Resul-Allah (successor of the prophet of God), when he was called to suppress the revolt of the tribes Hejaz and Nejd, of which the former rejected Islamism and the latter refused to pay tribute.

He at once refused, but was permitted to deliver lectures.

According to the narrative of Sir Thomas More, Sir Robert Brackenbury, the constable of the Tower, refused to obey Richard's command to put the young princes to death; but he complied with a warrant ordering him to give up his keys for one night to Sir James Tyrell, who had arranged for the assassination.