different between carrion vs refuse

English

Etymology

Old French caroigne (see modern French charogne), from Latin caro (“flesh”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kæ.?i.?n/

Noun

carrion (usually uncountable, plural carrions)

1. (chiefly uncountable) Dead flesh; carcasses.

   • They did eat the dead carrions.

   • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 119

     Perhaps the Purple Emperor is feasting, as Morris says, upon a mass of putrid carrion at the base of an oak tree.

2. (countable, obsolete, derogatory) A contemptible or worthless person.

Derived terms

• carrion beetle
• carrion crow

Translations

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed into late Middle English from Middle French refusé, past participle of refuser (“to refuse”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: r?f?yo?os, IPA^(key): /???fju?s/

Adjective

refuse (comparative more refuse, superlative most refuse)

1. Discarded, rejected.

Noun

refuse (uncountable)

1. Collectively, items or material that have been discarded; rubbish, garbage.

Synonyms

• discards
• garbage (US)
• rubbish (UK)
• trash (US)
• See also Thesaurus:trash

Translations

Etymology 2

From Old French refuser, from Vulgar Latin *refusare, a blend of Classical Latin refut? and recus?.

Pronunciation

• enPR: r?fyo?oz?, IPA^(key): /???fju?z/
• Rhymes: -u?z

Verb

refuse (third-person singular simple present refuses, present participle refusing, simple past and past participle refused)

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.

Usage notes

• This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs

Synonyms

• (decline): decline, reject, nill, say no to, turn down, veto, withsake, withsay
• (decline a request or demand): say no, forbear

Translations

Noun

refuse

1. (obsolete) refusal

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Etymology 3

re- +? fuse

Pronunciation

• enPR: r?fyo?oz?, IPA^(key): /?i??fju?z/
• Rhymes: -u?z

Verb

refuse (third-person singular simple present refuses, present participle refusing, simple past and past participle refused)

1. To melt again.

Related terms

• refusion

French

Verb

refuse

1. inflection of refuser:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• férues

Latin

Participle

ref?se

1. vocative masculine singular of ref?sus

References

• refuse in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press