Definition of refuses:
(v) :
(transitive) To decline (a request or demand).
(v) :
(intransitive) To decline a request or demand, forbear; to withhold permission.
(v) :
(ditransitive) To withhold (something) from (someone); to not give it to them or to bar them from having it.
(n) :
Collectively, items or material that have been discarded; rubbish, garbage.
(adj) :
Discarded, rejected.
(v) :
(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.