Refuse

1. To throw back, or cause to keep back (as the center, a wing, or a flank), out of the regular aligment when troops ar/ about to engage the enemy; as, to refuse the right wing while the left wing attacks.
2. That which is refused or rejected as useless; waste or worthless matter.
3. To disown.
4. Refused; rejected; hence; left as unworthy of acceptance; of no value; worthless.
5. To deny compliance; not to comply.
6. To deny, as a request, demand, invitation, or command; to decline to do or grant.
7. To decline to accept; to reject; to deny the request or petition of; as, to refuse a suitor.
8. Refusal.