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отклони́ть — meaning in English

otklonit

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English meaning

  • deflect verb To cause something to change direction, usually by bouncing or glancing off.
  • disallow verb To refuse to permit something.
  • dismiss verb To fire someone from a job, or to formally end someone's employment.
  • divert verb To change the direction or course of something.
  • rake noun A garden tool with a row of teeth on a long handle, used to gather leaves or debris or to smooth soil.
  • refuse verb To say no to a request, offer, or order.

Senses

отклони́ть is used for these senses in English:

  • deflect (transitive) To make (something) deviate from its original path or position.
  • disallow To reject as invalid, untrue, or improper.
  • dismiss (transitive) To reject; to refuse to accept.
  • rake (ambitransitive) To incline (something) from a perpendicular direction.
  • refuse (transitive) To decline (a request or demand).
  • turn down (idiomatic) To refuse, decline, or deny.

deflect — full definition

  1. verb To cause something to change direction, usually by bouncing or glancing off.
  2. verb To avoid dealing directly with a question, criticism, or blame.

disallow — full definition

  1. verb To refuse to permit something.
  2. verb To reject something as false, invalid or wrong.
  3. verb (law) For the monarch, acting with the Privy Council, to overrule a law passed by a colony.
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