reject
dismiss
defy
unbudging
disobedience
knock back
dishonor
dishonour
pass up
withsay
disapprove
turn down
noncomplying
resist
balky
gainsaying
balk
say no
ixnay
nait
forbear
disclaim
declination
disobey
reluctance
reprobate
stonewall
refusal
inhibition
nonconcurrence
knockback
scout
disacknowledge
nolle prosequi
diswant
scran
declinature
negative
turn away
nonrefusal
nolo episcopari
shut the door on
scorn
ort
prohibition
get knotted
rejective
rejectingly
stonewalling
repudiate
thumbs down
walk away from
nonacceptance
86
refuser
deny
rebuff
nonacceptation
disacceptance
deaf
indifferent
turn up one's nose
decline
unaccepting
non serviam
reluctant
nonaccepting
naysaying
denial
discredit
not be caught dead
disbelieve
have none of it
underacceptance
disallow
retract
discard
turn a deaf ear
possessive
disregard
snub
exclude
ignore
stand out
refusable
pass
rebellion
swear
rejectment
restive
turn a blind eye
cut
hesitantly
rejection
freeze off
pooh-pooh
disdain
unbudging
balky
rejective
deaf
indifferent
unaccepting
reluctant
nonaccepting
possessive
refusable
swear
restive
negative
rejectingly
hesitantly
disobedience
noncomplying
gainsaying
declination
reluctance
stonewall
refusal
inhibition
nonconcurrence
knockback
nolle prosequi
scran
declinature
nonrefusal
prohibition
stonewalling
thumbs down
nonacceptance
refuser
nonacceptation
disacceptance
non serviam
naysaying
denial
underacceptance
rebellion
rejectment
rejection
reject
dismiss
defy
knock back
dishonor
dishonour
pass up
withsay
disapprove
turn down
resist
balk
say no
ixnay
nait
forbear
disclaim
disobey
reprobate
scout
disacknowledge
diswant
negative
turn away
shut the door on
scorn
ort
repudiate
walk away from
86
deny
rebuff
turn up one's nose
decline
discredit
not be caught dead
disbelieve
have none of it
disallow
retract
discard
turn a deaf ear
disregard
snub
exclude
ignore
stand out
pass
turn a blind eye
cut
freeze off
pooh-pooh
disdain
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.
noun
verb
- To refuse suddenly.
- To stop short and refuse to go on.
- To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles.
- To omit, miss, or overlook by chance.
- To leave or make balks in.
- To make a deceptive motion to deceive another player.
- To stop, check, block.
- To indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore, the direction taken by the shoals of herring.
- To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition.
- To disappoint; to frustrate.
noun
- Beam, crossbeam; squared timber; a tie beam of a house, stretching from wall to wall, especially when laid so as to form a loft, "the balks".
- The wall of earth at the edge of an excavation.
- The area of the table lying behind the baulk line.
- A sudden and obstinate stop.
- A hindrance or disappointment; a check.
- The rope by which fishing nets are fastened together.
- The area of the table lying behind the line from which the cue ball is initially shot, and from which a ball in hand must be played.
- An illegal motion by the pitcher, intended to deceive a runner.
- A motion used to deceive the opponent during a serve.
- An uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing.
verb
noun
verb
- To reject with contempt.
- To scoff.
- To pour forth a liquid forcibly, especially excrement.
- To explore a wide terrain, as if on a search.
- To observe, watch, or look for, as a scout; to follow for the purpose of observation, as a scout.
noun
- A fighter aircraft.
- Term of address for a man or boy.
- An act of scouting or reconnoitering.
- A member of any number of youth organizations belonging to the international scout movement, such as the Boy Scouts of America or Girl Scouts of the United States.
- A person employed to monitor rivals' activities in the petroleum industry.
- A fielder in a game for practice.
- A housekeeper or domestic cleaner, generally female, employed by one of the constituent colleges of Oxford University to clean rooms; generally equivalent to a modern bedder at Cambridge University.
- A preliminary image that allows the technician to make adjustments before the actual diagnostic images.
- The guillemot.
- A person who assesses and/or recruits others; especially, one who identifies promising talent on behalf of a sports team.
- A domestic servant, generally male, who would attend (usually several) students in a variety of ways, including cleaning; generally equivalent to a gyp at Cambridge University or a skip at Trinity College, Dublin.
- A person sent out to gain and bring in tidings; especially, one employed in war to gain information about the enemy and ground.
verb
adj
- Denying a proposition.
- Often preceded by emotion, energy, feeling, or thought: to be avoided, bad, difficult, disagreeable, painful, potentially damaging, unpleasant, unwanted.
- Characterized by the presence of features which do not support a hypothesis.
- Less than zero degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit.
- Damaging; undesirable; unfavourable.
- Of or relating to a photographic image in which the colours of the original, and the relations of left and right, are reversed.
- Of electrical charge of an electron and related particles
- Not positive nor neutral.
- HIV negative.
- COVID-19 negative.
- Pessimistic; not tending to see the bright side of things.
- Of a number: less than zero
- Metalloidal, nonmetallic; contrasted with positive or basic.
intj
noun
- Refusal or withholding of assents; prohibition, veto
- A repetition performed with a weight in which the muscle begins at maximum contraction and is slowly extended; a movement performed using only the eccentric phase of muscle movement.
- The negative plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
- A right of veto.
- An unfavorable point or characteristic.
- A word that indicates negation.
- A negative quantity.
- An image in which dark areas represent light ones, and the converse.
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)
adv
noun
verb
- refuse to accept or believe
- declare untrue; contradict
- refuse to grant, as of a petition or request
- refuse to let have
- deny oneself (something); restrain, especially from indulging in some pleasure
- deny formally (an allegation of fact by the opposing party) in a legal suit
- refuse to recognize or acknowledge
adj
- (usually followed by `to') unwilling or refusing to pay heed
- marked by a lack of interest
- showing no care or concern in attitude or action
- (often followed by `to') lacking importance; not mattering one way or the other
- fairly poor to not very good
- having only a limited ability to react chemically; chemically inactive
- marked by no especial liking or dislike or preference for one thing over another
- characterized by a lack of partiality
- being neither good nor bad
- neither too great nor too little
verb
- To refuse, especially with disgust, contempt or scorn; to refuse with apparent disregard about offending the offerer.
- To make the gesture of raising one's nose, as a sign of scorn, contempt or disgust.
- To regard with contempt or scorn; to treat with contempt or scorn; to ignore or disregard in a contemptuous or scornful way.
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
adj
adj
noun
- Refusal to admit responsibility for wrongdoing.
- 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.
- A refusal or failure to provide or grant something that is requested or desired.
- Negationism, denialism of historical facts or accepted interpretation.
- The negation in logic.
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
- To persist in opposition or resistance (against something); to refuse to comply (with someone).
- To be obvious or conspicuous, in contrast to the surroundings.
- To sail in a direction away from shore.
- To be extraordinary and different or to have features and qualities which make someone or something special.
verb
- In euchre, to decline to make the trump.
- 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.
- 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 decline something that is offered or available.
- 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".
adj
verb
- To promise intensely that something is true; to strongly assert.
- To take an oath that an assertion is true.
- To use offensive, profane, or obscene language.
- To be lazy; rest for a short while during working hours.
- To administer an oath to (a person).
- To take an oath, to promise intensely, solemnly, and/or with legally binding effect.
noun
verb
- refuse to acknowledge
- separate with or as if with an instrument
- cut down on; make a reduction in
- turn sharply; change direction abruptly
- make an incision or separation
- discharge from a group
- form by probing, penetrating, or digging
- style and tailor in a certain fashion
- hit (a ball) with a spin so that it turns in the opposite direction
- make out and issue
- cut and assemble the components of
- intentionally fail to attend
- be able to manage or manage successfully
- give the appearance or impression of
- move (one's fist)
- pass directly and often in haste
- pass through or across
- make an abrupt change of image or sound
- stop filming
- make a recording of
- record a performance on (a medium)
- create by duplicating data
- form or shape by cutting or incising
- perform or carry out
- function as a cutting instrument
- allow incision or separation
- divide a deck of cards at random into two parts to make selection difficult
- cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch
- reap or harvest
- fell by sawing; hew
- penetrate injuriously
- shorten as if by severing the edges or ends of
- weed out unwanted or unnecessary things
- dissolve by breaking down the fat of
- have a reducing effect
- cease, stop
- reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
- lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
- have grow through the gums
- grow through the gums
- cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses)
noun
- a share of the profits
- (film) an immediate transition from one shot to the next
- a trench resembling a furrow that was made by erosion or excavation
- a step on some scale
- a wound made by cutting
- a piece of meat that has been cut from an animal carcass
- a remark capable of wounding mentally
- a distinct selection of music from a recording or a compact disc
- the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage
- the style in which a garment is cut
- a canal made by erosion or excavation
- a refusal to recognize someone you know
- in baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball
- (sports) a stroke that puts reverse spin on the ball
- the division of a deck of cards before dealing
- the act of penetrating or opening open with a sharp edge
- the act of cutting something into parts
- the act of shortening something by chopping off the ends
- the act of reducing the amount or number
- an unexcused absence from class
adj
- separated into parts or laid open or penetrated with a sharp edge or instrument
- fashioned or shaped by cutting
- made neat and tidy by trimming
- (used of grass or vegetation) cut down with a hand implement or machine
- (of pages of a book) having the folds of the leaves trimmed or slit
adj
verb
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