Donate
Donate verb - To make a present of.
Refuse
Refuse verb - To be unwilling to grant.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Guilt-Based Gaming: Any pets that you choose to donate will become visibly sad for the last few moments it's on the screen, and eventually turn its head away from you and refuse to look at you, even if you rotate the screen.
Source: Video Game / Nintendogs -
This is a significant plot point in One Piece, where Sanji is revealed to have a rare blood type, and Chopper runs out of spare blood for transfusions because Sanji keeps having incredible nose bleeds, prompting a crisis when the racist Fishmen refuse to donate blood.
Source: AB Negative
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Refuse and Donate. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/donate/refuse
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