Carrion vs Refuse - What's the difference?
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Dead flesh; carcasses.
* Spenser
* 1922, , Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 119
(obsolete, derogatory) A contemptible or worthless person.
* Shakespeare
(UK) Collectively, items or material that have been discarded; rubbish, garbage.
To decline (a request or demand).
* Bible, Isa. i. 20
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To decline a request or demand, forbear; to withhold permission.
(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.
(obsolete) To disown.
* Shakespeare
As nouns the difference between carrion and refuse
is that carrion is dead flesh; carcasses while refuse is collectively, items or material that have been discarded; rubbish, garbage.As an adjective refuse is
discarded, rejected.As a verb refuse is
to decline (a request or demand).carrion
English
Noun
(en-noun)- Vultures feed on carrion .
- They did eat the dead carrions .
- Perhaps the Purple Emperor is feasting, as Morris says, upon a mass of putrid carrion at the base of an oak tree.
- Old feeble carrions .
refuse
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(-)Synonyms
* discards * garbage (US ) * rubbish (UK ) * trash (US ) * See alsoEtymology 2
From (etyl) refuser, from .Verb
(refus)- My request for a pay rise was refused .
- I refuse to listen to this nonsense any more.
- If ye refuse ye shall be devoured with the sword.
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- I asked the star if I could have her autograph, but she refused .
- to refuse the right wing while the left wing attacks
- Refuse thy name.