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[ verb ri-jekt ; noun ree -jekt ] SHOW IPA
/ verb rɪˈdʒɛkt; noun ˈri dʒɛkt / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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verb (used with object) to refuse to have, take, recognize, etc.: to reject the offer of a better job.
to refuse to grant (a request, demand, etc.).
to refuse to accept (someone or something); rebuff: The other children rejected him. The publisher rejected the author's latest novel.
to discard as useless or unsatisfactory: The mind rejects painful memories.
to cast out or eject; vomit.
to cast out or off.
Medicine/Medical . (of a human or other animal) to have an immunological reaction against (a transplanted organ or grafted tissue): If tissue types are not matched properly, a patient undergoing a transplant will reject the graft.
SEE MORE SEE LESS noun something rejected, as an imperfect article.
Origin of reject First recorded in 1485–95; (verb) from Latin rējectus, past participle of rējicere “to throw back,” equivalent to re- re- + jec-, combining form of jacere “to throw” + -tus past participle suffix
SYNONYMS FOR reject 1, 2 deny.
3 repel, renounce.
4 eliminate, jettison.
8 second.
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synonym study for reject 1 . See refuse1 .
OTHER WORDS FROM reject re·ject·a·ble, adjective re·ject·er, noun re·jec·tive, adjective pre·re·ject, verb (used with object)
qua·si-re·ject·ed, adjective un·re·ject·a·ble, adjective un·re·ject·ed, adjective un·re·jec·tive, adjective
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Example sentences from the Web for reject The role was originally offered to John Wayne, who reject ed it for being “unpatriotic.”
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Brutality must be reject ed as a “mistake,” but simultaneously preserved as a possible policy option.
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Schettino also tried to enter a plea bargain agreement, which ultimately was reject ed by the Grosseto court.
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But Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Republicans reject ed the offers.
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Indeed, the body would ultimately have reject ed the organ transplant.
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I know not by what majority, for you did not read the record; I know not by whose votes; but that rule was reject ed.
Thirty Years' View (Vol. II of 2) | Thomas Hart Benton
Mr. Hartland was every thing which a reasonable woman could desire in a spouse, and accordingly his suit was not reject ed.
Tales of My Time, Vol. 1 (of 3) | William Pitt Scargill
Why should he marry this girl, reject ed of her former lover, who now hung upon his arm?
The Bertrams | Anthony Trollope
A suggestion,' says he, 'may be ever so old; but it is not exhausted until it is acted upon, or reject ed on sufficient reason.'
Chambers' Edinburgh Journal | Various
Every idea of prevention was reject ed, as conveying an improper suspicion of the ministers of the crown.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. I. (of 12) | Edmund Burke
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British Dictionary definitions for reject verb (rɪˈdʒɛkt ) (tr) to refuse to accept, acknowledge, use, believe, etc
to throw out as useless or worthless; discard
to rebuff (a person)
(of an organism) to fail to accept (a foreign tissue graft or organ transplant) because of immunological incompatibility
noun (ˈriːdʒɛkt ) something rejected as imperfect, unsatisfactory, or useless
Derived forms of reject rejectable , adjective rejecter or rejector , noun rejection , noun rejective , adjective Word Origin for reject C15: from Latin rēicere to throw back, from re- + jacere to hurl
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Words related to reject refuse, spurn, renounce, veto, scrap, dismiss, deny, repudiate, turn down, rebuff, repulse, shed, burn, despise, disbelieve, kill, exclude, decline, second, discredit
Medical definitions for reject v. To refuse to accept, submit to, believe, or use something.
To discard as defective or useless; throw away.
To spit out or vomit.
To resist immunologically introduction of a transplanted organ or tissue; fail to accept in one's body.
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