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Refuse
Waste (or wastes) are unwanted or unusable materials. Waste is any substance which is discarded after primary use, or it is worthless, defective and of no use.
Examples include municipal solid waste (household trash/refuse), hazardous waste, wastewater (such as sewage, which contains bodily wastes (feces and urine) and surface runoff), radioactive waste, and others.
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Refuse (adjective)
Discarded, rejected.
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Refuse (noun)
Collectively, items or material that have been discarded; rubbish, garbage.
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Refuse (noun)
refusal
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Refuse (verb)
To decline (a request or demand).
“My request for a pay rise was refused.”
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Refuse (verb)
To decline a request or demand, forbear; to withhold permission.
“I refuse to listen to this nonsense any more.”
“I asked the star if I could have her autograph, but she refused.”
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Refuse (verb)
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”
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Refuse (verb)
To disown.
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Deny (verb)
To not allow.
“I wanted to go to the party, but I was denied.”
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Deny (verb)
To assert that something is not true.
“I deny that I was at the party.”
“Everyone knows he committed the crime, but he still denies it.”
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Deny (verb)
To disallow
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Deny (verb)
to refuse to give or grant something to someone
“My father denied me a good education.”
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Deny (verb)
To prevent from scoring.
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Deny (verb)
To disclaim connection with, responsibility for, etc.; to refuse to acknowledge; to disown; to abjure; to disavow.
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Deny (verb)
To refuse (to do or accept something).