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The one-word sentence that ends negotiations and starts friendships, depending on delivery.
means To say no to something offered or demanded, flatly declining to accept, do, or allow it.
from From Old French 'refuser,' tracing back to Latin 'refusus,' past participle of 'refundere' — literally 'to pour back' (re- 'back' + fundere 'to pour'). The sense drifted from physically pouring something back or rejecting it as overflow to the more abstract 'to decline, reject' by the time it settled into English in the 14th century. So every refusal is, etymologically, a kind of pouring something back where it came from.
- two meanings
- same spelling, means trash when stressed differently
- etymology
- from latin refundere, to pour back
- power move
- full sentence, no apology required
- child's favorite
- mastered before please or thank you