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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

English

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian fuso and French fusée, from Latin f?sus (“spindle”).

Noun

fuse (plural fuses)

1. A cord that, when lit, conveys the fire to some explosive device.

   Synonym: fuze (US)

3. (manufacturing, mining, military) The mechanism that ignites the charge in an explosive device.

   Synonym: fuze

5. (electrical engineering) A device to prevent the overloading of an electrical circuit, containing a component that melts and interrupts the current when too high a load is passed through it.
6. (figuratively) Indicating a tendency to lose one's temper.

7. A friction match for smokers' use, having a bulbous head which when ignited is not easily blown out even in a gale of wind.
8. A kind of match made of paper impregnated with niter and having the usual igniting tip.

Usage notes

Professional publications about explosives and munitions distinguish the fuse and fuze spellings. The latter is preferred for the sense “mechanism that ignites the charge”.

Derived terms

• blow a fuse
• fusebox
• fuse wire
• short fuse

Translations

Etymology 2

Back-formation from fusion (“to melt”).

Verb

fuse (third-person singular simple present fuses, present participle fusing, simple past and past participle fused)

2. (transitive) To melt together; to blend; to mix indistinguishably.
3. (intransitive) To melt together.
4. To furnish with or install a fuse.
5. (organic chemistry) To form a bicyclic compound from two similar or different types of ring such that two or more atoms are shared between the resulting rings

Synonyms

• (mix indistinguishably): See also Thesaurus:homogenize
• (melt together): meld, smelt

Translations

Anagrams

• feus

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: fusent, fuses

Verb

fuse

1. first-person singular present indicative of fuser
2. third-person singular present indicative of fuser
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of fuser
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of fuser
5. second-person singular imperative of fuser

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -uze

Adjective

fuse

1. feminine plural of fuso

Noun

fuse f pl

1. plural of fusa

Participle

fuse f pl

1. feminine plural of fuso

Verb

fuse

1. third-person singular past historic of fondere

Latin

Participle

f?se

1. vocative masculine singular of f?sus

Adverb

f?s? (comparative f?sius, superlative f?sissim?)

1. widely, extensively
2. in great detail
3. loosely, roughly

References

• fuse in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fuse in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fuse in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

fuse (present tense fuser, past tense fuste, past participle fust)

1. rush

Adjective

fuse

1. inflection of fus:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural

References

• “fuse” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• fusa (verb) (a infinitive)

Verb

fuse (present tense fusar, past tense fusa, past participle fusa, passive infinitive fusast, present participle fusande, imperative fus)

1. rush

Adjective

fuse

1. inflection of fus:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural
2. neuter of fusen

References

• “fuse” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?fu.se]

Etymology 1

Verb

fuse

1. third-person singular simple perfect indicative of fi: he/she has been

Synonyms

• fu (informal)

Etymology 2

Noun

fuse n

1. indefinite plural of fus

Venetian

Verb

fuse

1. first-person singular imperfect subjunctive of èser
2. third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of èser
3. third-person plural imperfect subjunctive of èser