reject
- 1) verb, to refuse to accept, acknowledge, use, believe, etc
- 2) verb, to throw out as useless or worthless; discard
- 3) verb, to rebuff (a person)
- 4) verb, (of an organism) to fail to accept (a foreign tissue graft or organ transplant) because of immunological incompatibility
- 5) noun, something rejected as imperfect, unsatisfactory, or useless
Etymology
C15: from Latin rēicere to throw back, from re- + jacere to hurl
Collins English Electronic Dictionary - Digital Edition: 2008 © HarperCollins Publishers 2008
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failure, refuse, second, discard, flotsam, clunker, loser, flop, denial, veto, dismissal, exclusion, abandon, spurn, disown, renunciation, repudiate, rebuff, refusal, rebuff, drop, jilt, desert, turn down, ditch (slang), spurn, repulse, throw over, deny, decline, abandon, exclude, veto, discard, relinquish, renounce, spurn, eschew, leave off, throw off, disallow, forsake, retract, repudiate, disown, forgo, disclaim, forswear, swear off, discard, decline, eliminate, scrap, bin, jettison