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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
re-fuse .
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Examples
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Poland's prime minister re-fused to take a midnight call from Obama and then Hillary Clinton, referring the latter to his foreign minister.
A Return to Reality 2009
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When she was led into her own chamber, she re-fused to speak; but in great hurry went to her closet, and, taking down her Bible, turned over one leaf and another very quick.
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The gardener re-fused his key, and brought Camilla to her, whom
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Perhaps the company would not have broke up so soon, had not the bride been perverse, and re-fused to retire.
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I would have had him join them in the trust with me: but he re-fused to do so.
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You carry marks where they re-fused for the rest of your life.
Dead Beat Butcher, Jim 2005
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You carry marks where they re-fused for the rest of your life.
Dead Beat Butcher, Jim 2005
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It re-fused to dismiss the information his eyes and ears in'sisted on conveying.
The Chronicles of Riddick Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2004
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If he hadn't, he'd get a warning after the battle was over-and the second time he re-fused to accept a blow, the marked area or limb would truly go completely numb and useless until Kyrtian removed the magic that rendered it so.
Elvenborn Lackey, Mercedes 2002
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She re-fused the first two invitations, but accepted the third.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being Kundera, Milan, 1929- 1984
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