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Is refuse a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word refuse is a Scrabble US word. The word refuse is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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Is refuse a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word refuse is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

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Is refuse a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word refuse is a Words With Friends word. The word refuse is worth 10 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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6-letter words (1 found)

REFUSE,

5-letter words (7 found)

FEERS,FERES,FREES,FUSEE,REEFS,REUSE,SEFER,

4-letter words (21 found)

ERES,FEER,FEES,FERE,FEUS,FREE,FURS,FUSE,REEF,REES,REFS,RUES,RUSE,SEER,SERE,SERF,SUER,SURE,SURF,URES,USER,

3-letter words (19 found)

EFS,ERE,ERF,ERS,FEE,FER,FES,FEU,FUR,REE,REF,RES,RUE,SEE,SER,SUE,SUR,URE,USE,

2-letter words (9 found)

EE,EF,ER,ES,FE,FU,RE,UR,US,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 58 words from refuse according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of refuse

refuse

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

  • enPR: rĕfʹyo͞os, IPA(key): /ˈɹɛfjuːs/

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
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English refusen, from Old French refuser, from Vulgar Latin *refūsāre, a blend of Classical Latin refūtāre (whence also refute) and recūsāre (whence also recuse).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: rĭfyo͞ozʹ, IPA(key): /ɹɪˈfjuːz/
  • Rhymes: -uːz

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.
Conjugation
Synonyms
  • (decline): decline, reject, nill, say no to, turn down, veto, withsake, withsay
  • (decline a request or demand): say no, forbear
Derived terms
  • offer one can't refuse
Translations

Noun

refuse

  1. (obsolete) refusal

Etymology 3

re- +‎ fuse

Pronunciation

  • enPR: rēfyo͞ozʹ, IPA(key): /ɹiːˈfjuːz/
  • Rhymes: -uːz

Verb

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

  1. To melt again.
Conjugation
Related terms
  • refusion

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʁə.fyz/

Verb

refuse

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

Anagrams

  • férues

Galician

Verb

refuse

  1. inflection of refusar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /reˈfuː.se/, [rɛˈfuːs̠ɛ]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /reˈfu.se/, [reˈfuːs̬e]

Participle

refūse

  1. vocative masculine singular of refūsus

References

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

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