Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“refusing” is a form of

refuse

UK /ɹɪˈfjuːz/ · US /ɹɪˈfjuz/ adjective, noun, verb

Forms refuses refusing refused refusest refusedst refuseth

  1. adjective Discarded, rejected.
  2. noun Collectively, items or material that have been discarded; rubbish, garbage.
  3. verb (transitive) To decline (a request or demand). “My request for a pay rise was refused.”
  4. verb (intransitive) To decline a request or demand, forbear; to withhold permission. “I refuse to listen to this nonsense any more.”
  5. verb (ditransitive) To withhold (something) from (someone); to not give it to them or to bar them from having it.
  6. verb (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. “to refuse the right wing while the left wing attacks”
  7. verb (obsolete, transitive) To disown.
  8. noun (obsolete) refusal
  9. verb To fuse again, as with, or after, heating or melting.

Synonyms

discards garbage rubbish trash decline reject nill say no to turn down veto withsake withsay negative say no forbear food waste scraps pass up defy resist deny turn away

Antonyms

accept

Etymology

Borrowed into late Middle English from Middle French refusé, past participle of refuser (“to refuse”). Displaced native Middle English wernen (“to refuse”) likely due to the similar sounding Middle English warnen

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).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To deny, as a request, demand, invitation, or command; to decline to do or grant.
  2. verb To throw back, or cause to keep back (as the center, a wing, or a flank), out of the regular aligment when troops aras, to refuse the right wing while the left wing attacks.
  3. verb To deny compliance; not to comply.
  4. noun Refusal. [Obs.] Fairfax.

Etymology [F. refuser, either from (assumed) LL. refusare to refuse, v. freq. of L. refundere to pour back, give back, restore (see Refund to repay), or. fr. L. recusare to decline, refuse cf. Accuse, Ruse), influenced by L. refutare to drive back, repel, refute. Cf. Refute.]

Etymology [F. refus refusal, also, that which is refused. See Refuse to deny.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “refuse”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “refuse” (best matches first).

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