recuse

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈkjuːz/
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• General-American: /ɹiˈkjuz/
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• General-American: /ɹə-/
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• rhymes with -uːz
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From Late Middle English recusen, from Old French recuser (modern French récuser (“to challenge; to impugn; (formal) to make an objection; (law) to recuse”), and from its etymon Latin recūsāre, the present active infinitive of recūsō (“to decline, refuse, reject; (law) to object to, protest”), from re- (prefix meaning ‘again’, denoting opposition or reversal) + causa (“cause, reason; (law) case, claim; etc.”) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs). Doublet of rouse and possibly ruse. Cognates * Catalan recusar * French récuser * Italian ricusare * Old Occitan recuzar * Portuguese recusar * Spanish recusar

25 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Catalan: recusar — to reject or repudiate (an authority, a person, a court judgment, etc.)
• Czech: odmítnout — to reject or repudiate (an authority, a person, a court judgment, etc.)
• Dutch: wraken — to reject or repudiate (an authority, a person, a court judgment, etc.)
• Finnish: jäävätä — to reject or repudiate (an authority, a person, a court judgment, etc.)
• French: récuser — to reject or repudiate (an authority, a person, a court judgment, etc.)
• German: wegen Befangenheit ablehnen — to reject or repudiate (an authority, a person, a court judgment, etc.)
• Greek: εξαιρώ (exairó) — to reject or repudiate (an authority, a person, a court judgment, etc.)
• Hungarian: rekuzál — to reject or repudiate (an authority, a person, a court judgment, etc.)
• Macedonian: се по́влече (se póvleče) — to reject or repudiate (an authority, a person, a court judgment, etc.)
• Russian: отводи́ть (otvodítʹ) — to reject or repudiate (an authority, a person, a court judgment, etc.)
• Spanish: recusar — to reject or repudiate (an authority, a person, a court judgment, etc.)
• Chinese Mandarin: 迴避 /回避 (huíbì) — (transitive, reflexive) of a judge, juror, or prosecutor: to declare (oneself) unable to participate in a court case due to an actual or potential conflict of interest or lack of impartality
• Dutch: recuseren — (transitive, reflexive) of a judge, juror, or prosecutor: to declare (oneself) unable to participate in a court case due to an actual or potential conflict of interest or lack of impartality
• Finnish: jäävätä itsensä — (transitive, reflexive) of a judge, juror, or prosecutor: to declare (oneself) unable to participate in a court case due to an actual or potential conflict of interest or lack of impartality
• Finnish: jääviytyä — (transitive, reflexive) of a judge, juror, or prosecutor: to declare (oneself) unable to participate in a court case due to an actual or potential conflict of interest or lack of impartality
• French: récuser — (transitive, reflexive) of a judge, juror, or prosecutor: to declare (oneself) unable to participate in a court case due to an actual or potential conflict of interest or lack of impartality
• German: sich für befangen erklären — (transitive, reflexive) of a judge, juror, or prosecutor: to declare (oneself) unable to participate in a court case due to an actual or potential conflict of interest or lack of impartality
• Greek: αυτοεξαιρούμαι (aftoexairoúmai) — (transitive, reflexive) of a judge, juror, or prosecutor: to declare (oneself) unable to participate in a court case due to an actual or potential conflict of interest or lack of impartality
• Persian: رفع صلاحیت کردن (raf'-e salâhiyat kardan) — (transitive, reflexive) of a judge, juror, or prosecutor: to declare (oneself) unable to participate in a court case due to an actual or potential conflict of interest or lack of impartality
• Russian: отводиться (otvoditʹsja) — (transitive, reflexive) of a judge, juror, or prosecutor: to declare (oneself) unable to participate in a court case due to an actual or potential conflict of interest or lack of impartality
• Russian: отка́зываться от участия (ot) — (transitive, reflexive) of a judge, juror, or prosecutor: to declare (oneself) unable to participate in a court case due to an actual or potential conflict of interest or lack of impartality
• Spanish: recusarse — (transitive, reflexive) of a judge, juror, or prosecutor: to declare (oneself) unable to participate in a court case due to an actual or potential conflict of interest or lack of impartality
• Swedish: jäva ut sig — (transitive, reflexive) of a judge, juror, or prosecutor: to declare (oneself) unable to participate in a court case due to an actual or potential conflict of interest or lack of impartality
• Finnish: vastustaa jääviyden nojalla — to object to (a judge, juror, or prosecutor) participating in a court case due to an actual or potential conflict of interest or lack of impartiality
• Finnish: jääviytyä — (intransitive) of a judge, juror, or prosecutor: to declare oneself disqualified from trying a court case due to an actual or potential conflict of interest or lack of impartiality