nix vs refuse

nix

verb
  • To make something become nothing; to reject or cancel. 

  • To destroy or eradicate. 

intj
  • No! Not at all! 

noun
  • Nothing. 

  • A treacherous water-spirit; a nixie. 

refuse

verb
  • To decline (a request or demand). 

  • To decline a request or demand, forbear; to withhold permission. 

  • To melt again. 

  • To throw back, or cause to keep back (as the centre, a wing, or a flank), out of the regular alignment when troops are about to engage the enemy. 

adj
  • Discarded, rejected. 

noun
  • Collectively, items or material that have been discarded; rubbish, garbage. 

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