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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Items or material discarded or rejected as useless or worthless; trash or rubbish.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English, from Old French refus, rejection, refuse, from refuser, to refuse; see refuse.]

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