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REFUSAL
refusal
(noun) a message refusing to accept something that is offered
refusal
(noun) the act of refusing
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
refusal (countable and uncountable, plural refusals)
The act of refusing.
(civil engineering) Depth or point at which well or borehole drilling cannot continue.
Synonyms
• (act of refusing): repudiation, abnegation, declination
Anagrams
• Laufers, earfuls, earsful, ferulas, fur seal, salufer
Source: Wiktionary
Re*fus"al (-al), n.
1. The act of refusing; denial of anything demanded, solicited, or offered for acceptance. Do they not seek occasion of new quarrels, On my refusal, to distress me more Milton.
2. The right of taking in preference to others; the choice of taking or refusing; option; as, to give one the refusal of a farm; to have the refusal of an employment.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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