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3. resort, recourse, last resort or recourse, expedient, provision, stopgap; tactic, stratagem, machination, intrigue; artiface, device, trick, ruse, wile, subterfuge; maneuver, circumvention, dodge, feint, evasion, shift, sleight, juggle; front, facade, sham, blind, screen, smoke screen; pretext, pretense, pretension, loophole, contrivance.
refugee, n. 1. fugitive, runaway, escaper, escapee, dmigrd, fleer; deserter, bolter, eloper, absconder, Inf. skedaddler.
2. foreigner, stranger, alien, displaced person, D.P., outsider, outlander, tramontane; exile, outlaw, wanderer, stateless person, man without a country, Wandering Jew.
refulgent, adj. shining, glistening, aglisten, sparkling, glittering, aglitter; bright, sunny, sunshiny, illuminated, alight, lit, lighted, illuminated; irradiant, irradiated, lambent, resplendent, brilliant, beaming, beamy; dazzling, intense, ablaze, aflame, afire, blazing; fulgent, effulgent, splendid, splendrous, gorgeous; radiant, radiative; lustrous, lucid, lucent, Rare. relucent; glowing, aglow, luminous, luminescent, lu-miniferous, incandescent, phosphorescent, nitid, orient; shiny, glossy, gleaming, agleam, glaring; polished, burnished, argent.
refund, v. 1. restore, replace, return, repay, give back, pay back; recompense, compensate, remunerate, reimburse; remit, make compensation, satisfy; adjust, settle, square, square with; make repayment, make amends, redress, make good, make restitution; cover, indemnify, requite, redeem.
-n. 2. repayment, return, reimbursement, rebate; allowance, percentage, Inf. cut; discount.
refurbish, v. renovate, revamp, overhaul, recondition, rejuvenate, resurrect, rescue; renew, retouch, restore, remodel, refit, rebuild; repair, put in repair, put in good order, service, treat, mend, patch, Inf fix up; refresh, freshen, face-lift, revive, resuscitate; brighten up, polish up, rub up; clean, spruce up, SI. spiff or spiffy up, Inf. clean up-fix up-paint up.
refusal, n. 1. denial, nonconsent, withholding, disallowance; disapproval, turndown, veto, thumbs down, nay; negation, dissent, forswearing, abjuration, abnegation, disfavor; unwillingness, noncompliance, declension; regrets, nonacceptance; disclaimer, renouncement, disavowal, repudiation, renunciation, rejection, rebuff, repulse, Inf. the big NO.
2. option, preemption, emption, election, choice or privilege of refusal.
refuse¹, v. 1. reject, spurn, disdain, say no or nay, refuse to consider, refuse point blank, put one's foot down, not budge an inch, not yield an inch, turn thumbs-down, shake one's head at; decline, Inf. pass up or by, Inf. not buy; abstain from, stand aloof from, put behind one, abnegate.
2. deny, forbid, withhold consent, not allow, not permit, turn a deaf ear to, resist entreaty, naysay, SI. nix; not countenance, not hear of, not put up with.
3. repel, rebuff, repulse; bar, prohibit, exclude, slam the door, refuse to have anything to do with, have nothing to do with, turn one's back on, set one's face against, Inf. turn down; send back, cast aside; veto, disallow, vote nay, vote in the negative, withhold one's assent, disapprove, frown upon, view with disfavor, discountenance, look askance at, grudge, begrudge, keep back.