Translation
to refuse, to turn down
Examples
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He refused my help.
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She refused to come with us.
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They refused to pay the money.
peton.
I cannot refuse such a request.
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The boy refused to eat and left.
Transitive, and the refused action follows as a bare infinitive with nothing in between: , not . Its opposites are for a thing offered and for a proposal. To turn a person down rather than a thing, give the person : . The noun is rifuzo, and a describes someone habitually unwilling.
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