refuse

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
发音 rĕfʹyo͞os

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Collectively, items or material that have been discarded; rubbish, garbage. uncountable
  2. refusal obsolete
    — This ſpoken, readie with a proud refuſe [...]
动词 v.
  1. To decline (a request or demand). transitive
    — My request for a pay rise was refused.
  2. To fuse again, as with, or after, heating or melting.
  3. To decline a request or demand, forbear; to withhold permission. intransitive
    — I refuse to listen to this nonsense any more.
  4. To withhold (something) from (someone); to not give it to them or to bar them from having it. ditransitive
    — If we bang or scream they will spray us with some pepper or something else that's in an aeresol ^([sic]) can, and they wear gas masks, while the rest of us have to breathe the fumes in, and it makes us very sick and they refuse us medical treatment.
  5. 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 refuse the right wing while the left wing attacks
  6. To disown. obsolete,transitive
    — Refuse thy name.
形容词 adj.
  1. Discarded, rejected.

词形变化

more refuse comparative most refuse superlative refuses present,singular,third-person refusing participle,present refused participle,past refused past no-table-tags table-tags glossary inflection-template refuse infinitive refuse first-person,present,singular refused first-person,past,singular refuse present,second-person,singular refusest archaic,present,second-person,singular refused past,second-person,singular refusedst archaic,past,second-person,singular refuses present,singular,third-person refuseth archaic,present,singular,third-person refused past,singular,third-person refuse plural,present refused past,plural refuse present,subjunctive refused past,subjunctive refuse imperative,present - imperative,past refusing participle,present refused participle,past refuses present,singular,third-person refusing participle,present refused participle,past refused past no-table-tags table-tags glossary inflection-template refuse infinitive refuse first-person,present,singular refused first-person,past,singular refuse present,second-person,singular refused past,second-person,singular refuses present,singular,third-person refused past,singular,third-person refuse plural,present refused past,plural refuse present,subjunctive refused past,subjunctive refuse imperative,present - imperative,past refusing participle,present refused participle,past

词源

词源 1
Borrowed into late Middle English from Middle French refusé, past participle of refuser (“to refuse”). Displaced native Middle English wernen (“to refuse”) likely due to the similar sounding Middle English warnen
词源 2
From Middle English refusen, from Old French refuser, from Vulgar Latin *refūsāre, a blend of Classical Latin refūtāre (whence also refute) and recūsāre (whence also recuse).
词源 3
Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
English fuse
English refuse
From re- + fuse.
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