Refuse vs. Dismiss: What's the Difference?

To indicate unwillingness to do, accept, give, or allow

To end the employment or service of; discharge.

To indicate unwillingness (to do something)

To direct or allow to leave

To decline to jump (an obstacle). Used of a horse.

To stop considering; rid one's mind of; dispel

To decline to do, accept, give, or allow something.

To refuse to accept or recognize; reject

Items or material discarded or rejected as useless or worthless; trash or rubbish.

(Law) To adjudicate (a cause of action) as insufficient to proceed further in court because of some deficiency in law or fact.

Discarded, rejected.

To eject (a player or coach) for the remainder of a game.

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

To put out (a batter) in cricket.

(obsolete) refusal

(transitive) To discharge; to end the employment or service of.

(transitive) To decline (a request or demand).

(transitive) To order to leave.

(intransitive) To decline a request or demand, forbear; to withhold permission.

(transitive) To dispel; to rid one’s mind of.

(military) 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.

(transitive) To reject; to refuse to accept.

To disown.

(transitive) To invalidate; to treat as unworthy of serious consideration.

To melt again.

(transitive) To send or put away, to discard with disregard, contempt or disdain. (sometimes followed by as).

To deny, as a request, demand, invitation, or command; to decline to do or grant.

To get a batsman out.

To throw back, or cause to keep back (as the center, a wing, or a flank), out of the regular aligment when troops ar about to engage the enemy; as, to refuse the right wing while the left wing attacks.

To give someone a red card; to send off.

To decline to accept; to reject; to deny the request or petition of; as, to refuse a suitor.

To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away.

To disown.

To discard; to remove or discharge from office, service, or employment; as, the king dismisses his ministers; the matter dismisses his servant.

To deny compliance; not to comply.

To lay aside or reject as unworthy of attentions or regard, as a petition or motion in court.

Refusal.

Dismission.

That which is refused or rejected as useless; waste or worthless matter.

Bar from attention or consideration;

Refused; rejected; hence; left as unworthy of acceptance; of no value; worthless.

Cease to consider; put out of judicial consideration;

Food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)

Stop associating with;

Show unwillingness towards;

Terminate the employment of;

Refuse to accept;

End one's encounter with somebody by causing or permitting the person to leave;

Elude, especially in a baffling way;

Declare void;

Refuse to let have;

Resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ;

Refuse entrance or membership;