Find and Refuse

Find

Find noun - Something discovered.

Refuse is an antonym for find.

Nearby Words: finding, finder

Refuse

Refuse noun - Discarded or useless material.
Usage example: refuse had littered the playground until our volunteer group cleaned it up

Find is an antonym for refuse.

Nearby Words: refused, refusal, refusing, refuser

How words are described

plain plain find plain refuse
bad bad find bad refuse
main main find main refuse
few few find few refuse
Other adjectives: greatest.

Common collocations

person find person refuse person
girl find girl refuse girl
guy find guy refuse guy
people find people refuse people
Other words: item, time, way, food, cure, mother, nothing, father, anyone, weapons.

Both words in one sentence

  • In Fire Emblem Awakening, if the Avatar sacrifices himself/herself to permanently slay Grima the entire party will refuse to believe the person is dead and promise to find them.
  • In the Val Lewton film The Seventh Victim the antagonists are pacifist Satanists who refuse to kill, and instead find ways to drive the title character to kill herself.
  • In The Land Before Time, Cera and the other dinosaurs refuse to follow Littlefoot's instructions on where to go to find the Great Valley, instead taking an easier path.
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