refusal

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From Middle English refusell; equivalent to refuse + -al.

65 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: refuzim — the act of refusing
• Arabic: إِنْكَار (ʔinkār) — the act of refusing
• Arabic: رَفْض (rafḍ) — the act of refusing
• Arabic: إِبَاء (ʔibāʔ) — the act of refusing
• Azerbaijani: imtina — the act of refusing
• Belarusian: адмо́ва (admóva) — the act of refusing
• Bulgarian: о́тказ (ótkaz) — the act of refusing
• Catalan: rebuig — the act of refusing
• Catalan: refús — the act of refusing
• Chinese Cantonese: 拒絕 /拒绝 (keoi5 zyut6) — the act of refusing
• Chinese Mandarin: 拒絕 /拒绝 (jùjué) — the act of refusing
• Czech: odmítnutí — the act of refusing
• Danish: afslag — the act of refusing
• Dutch: weigering — the act of refusing
• Dutch: afwijzing — the act of refusing
• Esperanto: rifuzo — the act of refusing
• Estonian: keeldumine — the act of refusing
• Finnish: kieltäytyminen — the act of refusing
• Finnish: torjuminen — the act of refusing
• French: refus — the act of refusing
• German: Ablehnung — the act of refusing
• German: Weigerung — the act of refusing
• German: Verweigerung — the act of refusing
• German: Absage — the act of refusing
• Hindi: इनकार (inkār) — the act of refusing
• Hungarian: elutasítás — the act of refusing
• Hungarian: visszautasítás — the act of refusing
• Indonesian: penolakan — the act of refusing
• Irish: éaradh — the act of refusing
• Irish: eiteach — the act of refusing
• Italian: rifiuto — the act of refusing
• Japanese: 拒絶 (kyozetsu) — the act of refusing
• Japanese: 拒否 (kyohi) — the act of refusing
• Japanese: 断り (kotowari) — the act of refusing
• Korean: 거절 (geojeol) — the act of refusing
• Korean: 거부 (geobu) — the act of refusing
• Latin: negātiō — the act of refusing
• Latvian: noraidīšana — the act of refusing
• Latvian: atteikums — the act of refusing
• Latvian: noraidījums — the act of refusing
• Lithuanian: atsisakymas — the act of refusing
• Macedonian: одбивање (odbivanje) — the act of refusing
• Māori: whakakorenga — the act of refusing
• Norwegian Bokmål: avslag — the act of refusing
• Iranian Persian: اِنْکار (enkâr) — the act of refusing
• Iranian Persian: اِمْتِناع (emtenâ') — the act of refusing
• Polish: odmowa — the act of refusing
• Portuguese: recusa — the act of refusing
• Portuguese: negativa — the act of refusing
• Romanian: refuz — the act of refusing
• Russian: отка́з (otkáz) — the act of refusing
• Scottish Gaelic: diùltadh — the act of refusing
• Serbo-Croatian: одби́ја̄ње — the act of refusing
• Serbo-Croatian: odbíjānje — the act of refusing
• Slovak: odmietnutie — the act of refusing
• Slovene: zavrnitev — the act of refusing
• Slovene: odklonitev — the act of refusing
• Spanish: negativa — the act of refusing
• Spanish: rechazo — the act of refusing
• Swedish: vägran — the act of refusing
• Swedish: avslag — the act of refusing
• Tajik: инкор (inkor) — the act of refusing
• Telugu: నిరాకరణ (nirākaraṇa) — the act of refusing
• Ukrainian: відмо́ва (vidmóva) — the act of refusing
• Urdu: اِنْکار (inkār) — the act of refusing