1 to refuse

2 to decline

3 to reject

1 to be full of

2 to flood

3 to congest

1 to angrily rebuke

2 to indignantly denounce

1 to resist

2 to defy

3 to oppose

1 to resist

2 to repel

3 to refuse

1 act of God

2 force majeure (law)

3 irresistible (idiom)

1 to refuse nobody (idiom)

2 all comers welcome

1 to beat a tiger from the front door, only to have a wolf come in at the back (idiom); fig. facing one problem after another

1 deep, closed and refusing (idiom); obstinate

2 stubborn and perverse