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What does refuse mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word refuse? Here's what it means.

Adjective
Noun
  1. Collectively, items or material that have been discarded; rubbish, garbage.
Verb
  1. (transitive) To decline (a request or demand).
  2. (intransitive) To decline a request or demand, forbear; to withhold permission.
  3. (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.
  4. (obsolete, transitive) To disown.
Noun
  1. (obsolete) refusal
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