refuse
repel
kiss my ass
unauthorize
amber light
yellow light
refusenik
abstract
bite my ass
withsay
forwarn
denial
recuse
resign
bede
put one's foot down
disallow
deauthorize
strike out
naysaying
might
waive
knockback
knock back
pass
decline
to order
turn down
prohibition
non-pros
diswant
disapprove
disobey
disfavor
dismiss
shoot down
unchoose
dislike
disfavour
disapproval
disincorporate
nolle prosequi
disclaim
expropriate
stonewalling
ask
thumbs down
declination
redlight
ban
keep back
pull one's head in
renounce
unlock
withhold
forbear
facultative
cease and desist
hand over
fill
dismissal
fallout
fall away
quell
disown
call on
withcall
besiege
enjoinder
pass up
send someone packing
prohibitory
by your leave
overrule
heave-ho
forjudge
squash
dance to someone's tune
disapply
reluctant
resist
cast off
nonpermission
back out
unmanage
recusancy
dishonor
sequester
set aside
retract
dishonour
dig one's heels in
bilk
swipe left
baffle
cross
facultative
prohibitory
reluctant
amber light
yellow light
refusenik
denial
naysaying
knockback
prohibition
disfavor
dislike
disfavour
disapproval
nolle prosequi
stonewalling
thumbs down
declination
cease and desist
dismissal
fallout
enjoinder
by your leave
heave-ho
nonpermission
recusancy
refuse
repel
unauthorize
abstract
withsay
forwarn
recuse
resign
bede
put one's foot down
disallow
deauthorize
strike out
might
waive
knock back
pass
decline
turn down
non-pros
diswant
disapprove
disobey
dismiss
shoot down
unchoose
disincorporate
disclaim
expropriate
ask
redlight
ban
keep back
pull one's head in
renounce
unlock
withhold
forbear
hand over
fill
fall away
quell
disown
call on
withcall
besiege
pass up
send someone packing
overrule
forjudge
squash
dance to someone's tune
disapply
resist
cast off
back out
unmanage
dishonor
sequester
set aside
retract
dishonour
dig one's heels in
bilk
swipe left
baffle
cross
verb
- To steal; to take away; to remove without permission.
- To draw off (interest or attention).
- He was wholly abstracted by other objects.
- To separate; to disengage.
- To conceptualize an ideal subgroup by means of the generalization of an attribute, as follows: by apprehending an attribute inherent to one individual, then separating that attribute and contemplating it by itself, then conceiving of that attribute as a general quality, then despecifying that conceived quality with respect to several or many individuals, and by then ideating a group composed of those individuals perceived to possess said quality.
- To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself; to consider theoretically; to look at as a general quality.
- To produce an abstraction, usually by refactoring existing code. Generally used with "out".
- To create abstractions.
- To summarize; to abridge; to epitomize.
- To remove; to take away; withdraw.
- To perform the process of abstraction.
- To withdraw oneself; to retire.
adj
- Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize.
- Free from representational qualities, in particular the non-representational styles of the 20ᵗʰ century.
- Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.
- Lacking a story.
- Absolute.
- Being a partial basis for subclasses rather than a complete template for objects.
- Not concrete: conceptual, ideal.
- As a noun, denoting a concept or intangible as opposed to an object, place, or person.
- Separately expressing a property or attribute of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object: attributive, ascriptive.
- Pertaining comprehensively to, or representing, a class or group of objects, as opposed to any specific object; considered apart from any application to a particular object: general, generic, nonspecific; representational.
- Insufficiently factual.
noun
- A powdered solid extract of a medicinal substance mixed with lactose.
- Concentrated essence of a product.
- An abridgement or summary of a longer publication.
- The theoretical way of looking at things; something that exists only in idealized form.
- An abstract work of art.
- An abstraction; an abstract term; that which is abstract.
- A summary title of the key points detailing a tract of land, for ownership; abstract of title.
- Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items.
noun
- A refusal or failure to provide or grant something that is requested or desired.
- A disownment or disavowal
- An assertion of untruth.
- Refusal to believe that a problem exists.
- A defense mechanism involving a refusal to accept the truth of a phenomenon or prospect.
- Refusal to admit responsibility for wrongdoing.
- Negationism, denialism of historical facts or accepted interpretation.
- The negation in logic.
verb
- To reject or repudiate (an authority, a person, a court judgment, etc.).
- Of a judge, juror, or prosecutor: to declare oneself disqualified from trying a court case due to an actual or potential conflict of interest or lack of impartiality.
- To object to (a judge, juror, or prosecutor) participating in a court case due to an actual or potential conflict of interest or lack of impartiality.
- Of a judge, juror, or prosecutor: to declare (oneself) unable to participate in a court case due to an actual or potential conflict of interest or lack of impartiality.
verb
- To fail; to be refused a request or to have a proposal not be accepted, in particular a request for a (hopefully romantic) date.
- To draw a line through some text such as a printed or written sentence, with the purpose of deleting that text from the rest of the document.
- To begin to make one's way.
- To lash out; to strike or hit at someone or something, particularly something in arm's length of the striker and at or near the level of the striker's head.
- To strongly criticize or make a verbal attack, particularly as a response to previous criticism or provocation.
- to treat something as settled
- Of a batter, to be retired after three strikes (missed swings, as opposed to any other way of becoming "out"); of a pitcher, to cause this to happen to the batter.
verb
- Used in polite requests for permission
- simple past tense of may Used to indicate permission in past tense.
- Used to indicate conditional or possible actions.
- Even though.
- Used to indicate a desired past action that was not done.
- simple past tense of may Used to indicate possibility in past tense.
- Used to express certainty.
noun
verb
- To decline something that is offered or available.
- To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another.
- To depart, to cease, to come to an end.
- To spend.
- To go from one person to another.
- To put through a sieve.
- To be tolerated as a substitute for something else, to "do".
- To reject; to pass up.
- To happen.
- In turn-based games, to decline to play in one's turn.
- To proceed without hindrance or opposition.
- To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
- To utter; to pronounce; to pledge.
- To die.
- To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance.
- In euchre, to decline to make the trump.
- To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.
- To put in circulation; to give currency to.
- To live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.
- To move or be moved from one place to another.
- To change from one state to another (without the implication of progression).
- To continue.
- To elapse, to be spent.
- To progress from one state to another; to advance.
- To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance.
- To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal or official sanction to; to ratify; to enact; to approve as valid and just.
- To move (the ball or puck) to a teammate.
- To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force.
- To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.
- To eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes.
- To be accepted by others as a member of a race, sex, or other group to which one does not belong or would not have originally appeared to belong; especially to be considered white although one has black ancestry, or a woman although one was assigned male at birth or vice versa.
- To make a lunge or swipe.
- To throw the ball, generally downfield, towards a teammate.
- To decline or not attempt to answer a question.
- To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to become valid or effective; to obtain the formal sanction of (a legislative body).
- To make a judgment on or upon a person or case.
- To achieve a successful outcome from.
- To go past, by, over, or through; to proceed from one side to the other of; to move past.
noun
- A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
- Success in an examination or similar test.
- Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
- An intentional walk.
- The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the waiting staff.
- A sexual advance.
- An attempt.
- A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
- A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission
- The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
- A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
- A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other overtake it.
- A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
- The act of overtaking; an overtaking manoeuvre.
- The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
- An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier such as a mountain range; a passageway; a defile; a ford.
- A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).
- A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
- A thrust; a sally of wit.
- An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
verb
- To choose not to do something; refuse, forbear, refrain.
- To run through from first to last; to recite in order as though declining a noun.
- To cause to decrease or diminish.
- To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
- To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.
- To move downwards, to fall, to drop.
- To inflect for case, number, gender, and the like.
- To reject a penalty against the opposing team, usually because the result of accepting it would benefit the non-penalized team less than the preceding play.
- To become weaker or worse.
- To recite all the different declined forms of (a word).
noun
noun
- refusal to approve or assent to
- a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages
- a decree that prohibits something
- the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment
- the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof)
verb
- To reject; to refuse to accept.
- To get a batsman out.
- To give someone a red card; to send off.
- To order to leave.
- To invalidate; to treat as unworthy of serious consideration.
- To send or put away, to discard with disregard, contempt or disdain. (sometimes followed by as).
- To discharge; to end the employment or service of.
- To dispel; to rid one’s mind of.
verb
verb
- To request permission to do something.
- To interrogate or enquire of (a person).
- To put forward (a question) to be answered.
- To request or petition; usually with for.
- To invite.
- To take (a person's situation) as an example.
- To publish in church for marriage; said of both the banns and the persons.
- To require, demand, claim, or expect, whether by way of remuneration or return, or as a matter of necessity.
- To request (information, or an answer to a question).
noun
verb
- To prohibit; to interdict; to proscribe; to forbid or block from participation.
- To curse; to utter curses or maledictions.
- To curse; to execrate.
- To anathematize; to pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon; to place under a ban.
noun
- A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Moldovan leu.
- A unit measuring information or entropy based on base-ten logarithms, rather than the base-two logarithms that define the bit.
- A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Romanian leu.
- The gathering of the (French) king's vassals for war; the whole body of vassals so assembled, or liable to be summoned; originally, the same as arrière-ban: in the 16th c., French usage created a distinction between ban and arrière-ban, for which see the latter word.
- Prohibition.
- A public proclamation or edict; a summons by public proclamation. Chiefly, in early use, a summons to arms.
- A title used in several states in central and south-eastern Europe between the 7th century and the 20th century.
- A pecuniary mulct or penalty laid upon a delinquent for offending against a ban, such as a mulct paid to a bishop by one guilty of sacrilege or other crimes.
verb
- To decline further association with someone or something, disown.
- To cast off, repudiate.
- To abandon, forsake, discontinue (an action, habit, intention, etc), sometimes by open declaration.
- To fail to follow suit; playing a card of a different suit when having no card of the suit led.
- To make a renunciation of something.
- To give up, resign, surrender.
- To surrender formally some right or trust.
noun
verb
- To undermine something that has control over a situation; to find a way to counter or oppose.
- To make available.
- To configure (a mobile phone) so that it is not bound to any particular carrier.
- To undo or open a lock or something locked by, for example, turning a key, or selecting a combination.
- To obtain access to something; to meet the requirements of a security or protection system.
- To disclose or reveal previously unknown knowledge or potential.
- To be or become unfastened or unrestrained.
noun
verb
- To satisfy or obey (an order, request, or requirement).
- To treat (a tooth) by adding a dental filling to it.
- To add contents to (a container, cavity, or the like) so that it is full.
- To become full.
- To install someone, or be installed, in (a position or office), eliminating a vacancy.
- To trim (a yard) so that the wind blows on the after side of the sails.
- To fill or supply fully with food; to feed; to satisfy.
- To enter (something), making it full.
- To occupy fully, to take up all of.
- To become pervaded with something.
- To have sexual intercourse with (a female).
noun
- An embankment, as in railroad construction, to fill a hollow or ravine; also, the place which is to be filled.
- Soil and/or human-created debris discovered within a cavity or cut in the layers and exposed by excavation; fill soil.
- An amount that fills a container.
- A short passage, riff, or rhythmic sound that helps to keep the listener's attention during a break between the phrases of a melody.
- The filling of a container or area.
- A sufficient or more than sufficient amount.
- Inexpensive material used to occupy empty spaces, especially in construction.
- bass fill
- One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.
noun
- The rejection of a legal proceeding, or a claim or charge made therein.
- A written or spoken statement of such an act.
- Removal from consideration; putting something out of one's mind, mentally disregarding something or someone.
- The act of sending someone away.
- Release from confinement; liberation.
- Deprivation of office; the fact or process of being fired from employment or stripped of rank.
- The final blessing said by a priest or minister at the end of a religious service.
- The event of a batsman getting out; a wicket.
noun
- The person who declines such an offer.
- A negative side effect; an undesirable or unexpected consequence.
- A declined offer in a sales transaction when acceptance was presumed.
- An impromptu guest used to fill in for another guest spot who is a no-show or who has cancelled last minute.
- The event of small airborne particles falling to the ground in significant quantities as a result of major industrial activity, volcano eruption, sandstorm, nuclear explosion, etc.
- The particles themselves.
verb
- To suppress; to force into submission.
- To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.
- To compress or restrict (oneself) into a small space; to squeeze.
noun
- Lagenaria siceraria (syn. Cucurbita verrucosa), calabash, long-neck squash.
- A preparation made by placing material on a slide (flat, rectangular piece of glass), covering it and applying pressure.
- A sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets.
- An extremely one-sided, usually short, match.
- Cucurbita argyrosperma (syn. Cucurbita mixta), cushaw squash.
- Cucurbita moschata, butternut squash, Barbary squash, China squash.
- Cucurbita pepo, most pumpkins, acorn squash, summer squash, zucchini.
- The edible or decorative fruit of these plants, or this fruit prepared as a dish.
- Cucurbita maxima, including hubbard squash, great winter squash, buttercup squash, and some varieties of pumpkins.
- A soft drink made from a fruit-based concentrate diluted with water.
- Any other similar-looking plant of other genera.
- A place or a situation where people have limited space to move.
verb
verb
- To withdraw from something one has agreed to do.
- To exit a mode or function.
- To draw from behind the back [+accusative = a knife etc.] (as also bare back).
- To undo (a change).
- Coordinate terms: cancel, call off, get cold feet
- To reverse (a vehicle) from a confined space.
- See also: sell short
- To dare (someone) to not withdraw from a challenge.
- To bet on someone losing.
- Coordinate term: scare off
verb
- To temporarily remove (property) from the possession of its owner and hold it as security against legal claims.
- To separate in order to store.
- To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc.
- To prevent an ion in solution from behaving normally by forming a coordination compound
- To remove (certain funds) automatically from a budget.
- To separate from all external influence; to seclude; to withdraw.
- To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.
- To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.
- To seize and hold enemy property.
- To withdraw; to retire.
noun
verb
- To decline or fail to do something promised; to break one's word.
- To avert (one's eyes or a gaze).
- To pull (something) back or back inside.
- Of something said or written (such as published academic work): to take back or withdraw.
- To draw (an extended body part) back into the body.
- To take back or withdraw (something that has been said or written); to disavow, to repudiate.
- Originally in chess and now in other games as well: to take back or undo (a move); specifically (card games) to take back or withdraw (a card which has been played).
- To break or fail to keep (a promise, etc.); to renege.
- To draw back; to draw up; to withdraw.
- To pronounce (a sound, especially a vowel) farther to the back of the vocal tract.
- To cancel or take back (something, such as an edict or a favour or grant previously bestowed); to rescind, to revoke.
verb
- hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
- travel across or pass over
- meet at a point
- fold so as to resemble a cross
- to cover or extend over an area or time period
- meet and pass
- trace a line through or across
- breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties
adj
- extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction; at right angles to the long axis
- annoyed and irritable
noun
- a wooden structure consisting of an upright post with a transverse piece
- a marking that consists of lines that cross each other
- any affliction that causes great suffering
- (genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species
- (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids
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