refuse
/ɹiːˈfjuːz/ verb B1- To fuse again, as with, or after, heating or melting.
Plural refuse · He/she/it refuses · Past refused · Past participle refused · -ing form refusing
Verb forms
- Base form
- refuse
- He/she/it
- refuses
- Past
- refused
- Past participle
- refused
- -ing form
- refusing
From the library
No, for I think he never liked me since the day when I was silly enough, after a little quarrel we had, to propose to him to stop for ten minutes at the island of Monte Cristo to settle the dispute—a proposition which I was wrong to suggest, and he quite right to refuse.
“Ah, yes,” continued Caderousse, “and capital offers, too; but you know, you will be captain, and who could refuse you then?”
“Which you refused?”
“Then you were wrong to refuse to dine with him.”
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