different between refuse vs denay

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

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Fairfax to this entry?)

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

English

Noun

denay (plural denays)

1. (obsolete) denial; refusal
   • c.1600, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

     Duke Orsino: My love can give no place, bide no denay.

   • c. 1542, Thomas Wyatt, Forget Not Yet

     Forget not yet the great assays,
     The cruel wrong, the scornful ways,
     The painful patience in denays […]

Verb

denay (third-person singular simple present denays, present participle denaying, simple past and past participle denayed)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To deny, refuse.
   • 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XII, xxvii:

     Preserve this babe, whose mother must denay / To nourish it, preserve this harmless child.

Anagrams

• Adney, Ayden, Dayne, dynae, nayed