Definition for Refuse:

• That which is refused or rejected as useless; waste or worthless matter.

Synonyms for Refuse:

• n.

  •
  • remains,
  • ruin,
  • nix.
  •
  • withhold.
  •filth (noun)
  • ordure,
  • foul matter.
  •garbage (noun)
  • dust,
  • junk,
  • dregs,
  • waste,
  • waste matter,
  • scum,
  • offal,
  • dunghill,
  • Rejectamenta,
  • remains,
  • dump,
  • residue,
  • litter,
  • slop,
  • debris,
  • swill,
  • Leavings,
  • sediment,
  • dross,
  • Sweepings,
  • hogwash,
  • muck,
  • scraps,
  • rubbish,
  • trash.
  •odds and ends (noun)
  • scraps.
  •refuse (noun)
  • deny,
  • resist,
  • garbage,
  • reject,
  • decline,
  • turn away,
  • scraps,
  • pass up,
  • defy,
  • turn down,
  • food waste.
  •rubbish (noun)
  • trash,
  • Leavings,
  • litter.
  •waste (noun)
  • despoilment,
  • decay,
  • offal,
  • chaff,
  • leakage,
  • residue,
  • effluent,
  • remnant,
  • sludge,
  • garbage,
  • debris,
  • rubbish,
  • waste,
  • Dejecta,
  • detritus,
  • slop,
  • junk,
  • Filings.

• v.

  •communication (verb)
  • decline.
  •deny; say no (verb)
  • dodge,
  • turn down,
  • desist,
  • beg off,
  • make excuses,
  • withdraw,
  • hold out,
  • dispense with,
  • dissent,
  • turn one's back on,
  • regret,
  • disallow,
  • evade,
  • demur,
  • reject,
  • turn deaf ear to,
  • repudiate,
  • decline,
  • refuse to receive,
  • not care to,
  • repel,
  • send regrets,
  • give thumbs down to,
  • turn away,
  • spurn,
  • brush off,
  • send off,
  • shun,
  • not budge,
  • not budget,
  • disaccord,
  • disapprove,
  • hold back,
  • reprobate,
  • rebuff,
  • pass up,
  • not buy,
  • ignore,
  • protest,
  • hold off,
  • withhold,
  • nix,
  • turn from.
  •prohibit (verb)
  • block,
  • oppress,
  • curtail,
  • disqualify,
  • restrain,
  • suppress,
  • ban,
  • disallow,
  • preclude,
  • constrain,
  • forbid,
  • inhibit,
  • reject,
  • curb,
  • prevent,
  • restrict,
  • prohibit,
  • bar,
  • control,
  • deny,
  • outlaw,
  • disapprove.
  •refuse (verb)
  • disagree,
  • disincline,
  • renounce,
  • dismiss,
  • decline,
  • disdain,
  • repulse,
  • repudiate.
  •reject (verb)
  • throw away,
  • brush off.
  •stative (verb)
  • reject,
  • resist.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • provide,
  • slag,
  • debar.
  •
  • nix,
  • repel,
  • obey,
  • dregs,
  • veto.
  •
  • excess,
  • withhold.
  •
  • withdraw.
  •condemn
  • disapprove.
  •debris
  • flotsam.
  •deny
  • forsake,
  • say no to,
  • disclaim,
  • keep back,
  • taboo,
  • not buy.
  •dirt
  • Sweepings.
  •disagree
  • demur,
  • dissent.
  •exclude
  • lock out,
  • ward off.
  •fend off
  • keep off,
  • beat off,
  • drive back.
  •garbage
  • hogwash.
  •ignore
  • brush off.
  •kill
  • kill.
  •prohibit
  • bar,
  • debar.
  •refrain
  • abstain.
  •reject
  • jettison,
  • give thumbs down to,
  • disavow.
  •resist
  • abstain from,
  • hold out against.
  •rubbish
  • trash.
  •shut out
  • shut out.
  •Other relevant words:
  • dogie,
  • refuse to receive,
  • hold back,
  • disagreement,
  • bend,
  • collateral,
  • rump,
  • sneeze at,
  • wastrel,
  • brush off,
  • culm,
  • dreary,
  • ordure,
  • nix,
  • disregard,
  • discards,
  • cheerless,
  • drive back,
  • balance,
  • go down,
  • turn,
  • Heeltap,
  • jib,
  • waste paper,
  • refusal,
  • orphan,
  • pass by,
  • anyway,
  • grime,
  • protest,
  • hold out,
  • enjoin,
  • deflect,
  • Sweepings,
  • slops,
  • mud,
  • survival,
  • forswear,
  • forlorn,
  • drop,
  • bilgewater,
  • derelict,
  • dump,
  • gaunt,
  • shrink,
  • vestige,
  • say no to,
  • contemn,
  • mulct,
  • faeces,
  • grounds,
  • lower,
  • spend,
  • hold out against,
  • wastepaper,
  • crap,
  • resign,
  • crud,
  • grudge,
  • reluctantly,
  • beat off,
  • reprobate,
  • remaining,
  • turn from,
  • desist,
  • result,
  • fossil,
  • not think of,
  • waste matter,
  • shit,
  • endure,
  • junking,
  • pelf,
  • give the boot,
  • divergence,
  • be against,
  • repress,
  • deprive,
  • unproductive,
  • essentially,
  • blacklist,
  • kill,
  • crumbs,
  • give thumbs down to,
  • Orts,
  • dodge,
  • void,
  • devastate,
  • keep away,
  • lour,
  • foul matter,
  • confute,
  • keep off,
  • superfluity,
  • interfere,
  • part from,
  • scorn,
  • slag,
  • flotsam and jetsam,
  • correct,
  • denial,
  • dung,
  • overage,
  • avoid,
  • sewerage,
  • remove,
  • also,
  • chase,
  • pigwash,
  • disable,
  • soot,
  • remnants,
  • beg off,
  • slack,
  • grunge,
  • abstain from,
  • Discarding,
  • deep-six,
  • dumping,
  • keep back,
  • push for,
  • hold up,
  • baulk,
  • tare,
  • rubble,
  • besides,
  • check,
  • dreg,
  • ignore,
  • regret,
  • drive away,
  • except,
  • lifeless,
  • boycott,
  • scum,
  • not budge,
  • lonely,
  • leave,
  • dispossess,
  • exile,
  • shadow,
  • fend off,
  • abjure,
  • excess,
  • rejects,
  • just,
  • disobey,
  • deselect,
  • freeze out,
  • merely,
  • lumber,
  • repel,
  • severe,
  • retract,
  • throw away,
  • discard,
  • absolutely,
  • rid,
  • wastage,
  • ooze,
  • dustheap,
  • dismal,
  • turn thumbs down on,
  • send regrets,
  • rasping,
  • abandon,
  • manure,
  • dispense with,
  • recant,
  • disprove,
  • droppings,
  • afterimage,
  • shavings,
  • send to Coventry,
  • surplus,
  • rebuff,
  • trace,
  • bare,
  • raffle,
  • bleak,
  • exclude,
  • rag,
  • authentically,
  • scout,
  • fend,
  • after all,
  • pass,
  • banish,
  • withhold,
  • straw,
  • dishwater,
  • nevertheless,
  • Offscum,
  • loathe,
  • abstain,
  • send packing,
  • sawdust,
  • negate,
  • eschew,
  • further,
  • sludge,
  • dirt,
  • detain,
  • dissent,
  • stripped,
  • bones,
  • gash,
  • paring,
  • rest,
  • guano,
  • fragments,
  • stand firm,
  • scourings,
  • excreta,
  • butt,
  • furthermore,
  • opening,
  • obey,
  • scrap,
  • disaccord,
  • chuck out,
  • garble,
  • Sullage,
  • shut out,
  • balk,
  • pack off,
  • remains,
  • not hear of,
  • make excuses,
  • despise,
  • contain,
  • not budget,
  • push back,
  • turn away,
  • chase away,
  • pass up,
  • scum of the earth,
  • scoria,
  • Deads,
  • ruin,
  • riffraff,
  • pigswill,
  • sneer at,
  • shard,
  • more,
  • send off,
  • begrudge,
  • abnegate,
  • push aside,
  • veto,
  • tabu,
  • throw down,
  • count me out,
  • rebut,
  • be unwilling,
  • proscribe,
  • keep out,
  • consume,
  • leftovers,
  • eliminate,
  • take exception,
  • gainsay,
  • remainder,
  • Rejectamenta,
  • rejection,
  • stand,
  • alluvium,
  • all the same,
  • really,
  • beat back,
  • Draff,
  • destroy,
  • obviate,
  • flotsam,
  • withstand,
  • turn back,
  • Ort,
  • lock out,
  • Leavings,
  • argue,
  • holdover,
  • swill,
  • roach,
  • grow smaller,
  • avert,
  • worsen,
  • drivel,
  • freeze off,
  • offscourings,
  • safety valve,
  • shrug off,
  • waifs and strays,
  • let go,
  • castaway,
  • leftover,
  • gunge,
  • shaving,
  • Spilth,
  • defeat,
  • cobweb,
  • scraps,
  • rule out,
  • hogwash,
  • putrescence,
  • hold off,
  • object,
  • give the brush,
  • dispose of,
  • drug,
  • adhere,
  • overrule,
  • disapprove of,
  • rinsing,
  • lees,
  • deprive of,
  • recall,
  • turn thumbs down,
  • stump,
  • dust,
  • muck,
  • wane,
  • however,
  • comprise,
  • cry off,
  • end,
  • contradict,
  • blackball,
  • take a stand,
  • spurn,
  • slough,
  • mire,
  • say no,
  • draw the line,
  • jetsam,
  • bilge,
  • filth,
  • scouring,
  • removal,
  • soil,
  • trash,
  • grow worse,
  • relic,
  • dreck,
  • lagan,
  • dare,
  • very,
  • bid farewell,
  • certainly,
  • say goodbye,
  • stuff,
  • snub,
  • pass over,
  • fire escape,
  • relinquish,
  • husk,
  • give up,
  • shun,
  • truly,
  • shards,
  • throwaway,
  • ward off,
  • revoke,
  • divest,
  • disavow,
  • stand aloof,
  • squander,
  • eject,
  • positively,
  • parings,
  • afterglow,
  • scrapping,
  • not allow,
  • austere,
  • forgo,
  • expel,
  • turn one's back on,
  • odds and ends,
  • throw over,
  • gloomy,
  • truely,
  • scrap iron,
  • frippery,
  • provide,
  • stubble,
  • Deadwood,
  • sediment,
  • harsh,
  • refuse to consider,
  • potsherds,
  • rags,
  • negative,
  • discount,
  • relics,
  • qualify,
  • putrefaction,
  • remonstrate,
  • thrust back,
  • indeed,
  • litter,
  • disown,
  • Remanent,
  • nonetheless,
  • kelter,
  • desert,
  • oppose,
  • substantially,
  • move along,
  • shoddy,
  • unwillingly,
  • waive,
  • weed,
  • wreck,
  • disposal,
  • debar,
  • yet,
  • do without,
  • skip,
  • withdraw,
  • defy,
  • loophole,
  • too,
  • path,
  • residuum,
  • useless,
  • vent,
  • raspings,
  • demur,
  • Culls,
  • disclaim,
  • slime,
  • not care to,
  • drawbridge,
  • omit,
  • forsake,
  • skeleton,
  • food waste,
  • cut,
  • sewage,
  • resist,
  • interdict,
  • tares,
  • weeds,
  • dunghill,
  • expropriate,
  • again,
  • rubbish heap,
  • slight,
  • standoff,
  • put back,
  • waif,
  • cold,
  • empty,
  • pollution,
  • cold shoulder,
  • inutility,
  • valueless,
  • override,
  • throw out,
  • turn deaf ear to,
  • castoff,
  • turn down,
  • dross,
  • left over,
  • Offscouring,
  • elimination,
  • trumpery,
  • jilt,
  • not buy,
  • evade,
  • show the door,
  • brush aside,
  • jettison,
  • miserable,
  • dispense,
  • complain,
  • chuck,
  • carrion,
  • taboo,
  • send away,
  • strip,
  • superfluous,
  • let pass,
  • scurf,
  • Educt,
  • ruins,
  • embargo,
  • husks,
  • withal,
  • filthiness,
  • foundling,
  • poor,
  • reserve,
  • challenge,
  • throw back,
  • dregs,
  • not on your life,
  • worthless.

Antonyms for Refuse:

• n.

  • garbage
    cleanliness, sense, property, assets, possessions.
  • Other antonyms:
    retain, booty, intromit, gem, uphold, claim, plum, goody, trove, defend, avow, maintain, find, hold, catch, own, proclaim, treasure, acknowledge, valuable, advocate, pearl, salvage, cherish, jewel, vindicate, assert, prize.

• v.

  • communication
    accept.
  • deny; say no
    allow, endorse, face, agree, accept, approve, ok, meet, consent, sanction, grant, offer.

Homophones for Refuse:

• rbc, Rara Avis, roebuck, ravehook, rabies, rooibos, rear back, rhapis, revise, revoke, repose, raphus, rubbish, rubbishy, raffish, roof peak, rhibhus, rubiaceae, refuge, Rebozo, ribes, ribose, rebecca, reface, rebekah, ribhus, rebus, ravish, reap hook, refugee, rubus, rebuke, ripsaw, refocus, ravage, Rubus Caesius, repechage, repossess, rapacious, rib cage.

Hypernym for Refuse:

• v.

  • communication
    disobey, repudiate, pooh-pooh, reject, contract out, spurn, scorn, regret, disdain, turn down, freeze off.

Hyponym for Refuse:

• v.

  • communication
    react, respond.
  • stative
    react, respond.