"refuse" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

refuse verbo

refuse + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 76
refuse permission • refuse entry • refuse treatment • refuse one's offer • refuse one's request • refuse one's invitation • ...
verbo + refuse
Kolokacji: 5
continue to refuse • begin refusing • keep refusing • dare refuse • consider refusing
refuse + preposición
Kolokacji: 21
refuse to • refuse by • refuse for • refuse on • refuse from • ...
refuse + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 73
initially refuse • steadfastly refuse • simply refuse • flatly refuse • stubbornly refuse • repeatedly refuse • absolutely refuse • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 19
(1) initially, originally
Kolokacji: 2
(3) simply, positively, merely
Kolokacji: 3
2. positively refuse = pozytywnie odmów positively refuse
  • I positively refused to touch a farthing of his money.
  • When the camp was only just across the river, two of the calves positively refused to go any further.
  • They positively refused to have me appoint any representative of labor, or to put on an extra man.
  • At a distance it was impossible for him to tell if she was positively refusing food, or simply had lost interest in eating.
  • Now, as to this moment-of-truth bit, I positively refuse to let you use the phrase.
  • If the outside world did not at first grasp its significance, the Israeli leadership positively refused to do so.
  • The only member of our small society who positively refused to adapt himself to circumstances, was Jip.
  • The one line of writing contained these words: "I refuse positively to part with my child.
  • "You positively refuse to let me have this crazy old house, and the land under and adjoining, at the price named?"
  • She pushed on, absolutely, positively refusing to believe that she may have taken the wrong road.
3. merely refuse = jedynie odmów merely refuse
(4) flatly, categorically
Kolokacji: 2
(9) generally, specifically
Kolokacji: 2
(10) angrily, indignantly
Kolokacji: 2
(11) hardly, scarcely
Kolokacji: 2
(12) outright, promptly, suddenly
Kolokacji: 3
(13) publicly, plainly
Kolokacji: 2
(14) eventually, finally
Kolokacji: 2
(16) vehemently, unreasonably
Kolokacji: 2
(17) steadily, regularly
Kolokacji: 2
(18) formally, officially
Kolokacji: 2
(19) willfully, consciously
Kolokacji: 2

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