Find
Find noun - Something discovered.
Refuse
Refuse noun - Discarded or useless material.
Usage example: refuse had littered the playground until our volunteer group cleaned it up
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
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.
Source: I Will Find You - 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.
Source: Evil Is Not Pacifist - 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.
Source: The Window or the Stairs
Cite this Source
Refuse and Find. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/find/refuse
Find & Refuse. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/find/refuse>.
Refuse or Find. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/find/refuse.
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