reject

[ verb ri-jekt; noun ree-jekt ]

/ verb rɪˈdʒɛkt; noun ˈri dʒɛkt /

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Definition of reject

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.

noun

something rejected, as an imperfect article.

OTHER WORDS FOR reject

1, 2 deny.

3 repel, renounce.

4 eliminate, jettison.

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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

synonym study for reject

1. See refuse¹.

OTHER WORDS FROM reject

re·ject·a·ble, adjectivere·ject·er, nounre·jec·tive, adjectivepre·re·ject, verb (used with object)

qua·si-re·ject·ed, adjectiveun·re·ject·a·ble, adjectiveun·re·ject·ed, adjectiveun·re·jec·tive, adjective

Words nearby reject

reiteration, Reiter's syndrome, Reith, reive, Réjane, reject, rejectamenta, rejectee, rejection, rejectionist, rejection region

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How to use reject in a sentence

Testing thousands of molecules during high-speed automated experiments, she plucked one of the compounds out of the reject column and moved it into the group that warranted further study.
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Then I glanced at the second book and woefully added it to the reject pile.
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“I firmly and wholeheartedly reject the allegations,” Hawking said from a Cambridge Hospital.
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As Assaf put it, “this is one way to reject extremism and make it so the people are not afraid.”
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And I was wondering how you combat that impulse to reject the young?
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His Mormon faith was no reason to reject his candidacy, he argued.
It’s Official: Religion Doesn’t Make You More Moral|Elizabeth Picciuto|September 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
I reject angrily authority that exists without my respect.
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If you use it wisely, it may be Ulysses' hauberk; if you reject it, the shirt of Nessus were a cooler winding-sheet!
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No man would reject the words of God if he knew that God spoke those words.
God and my Neighbour|Robert Blatchford
Again, a principal cannot accept part of an agent's act and reject the remainder.
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If eager to get the most possible, she would reject the gift of money and claim her dower rights.
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Early stages of great grief reject comfort, but they long, with intense longing, for sympathy.
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British Dictionary definitions for reject

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, adjectiverejecter or rejector, nounrejection, nounrejective, adjective

Word Origin for reject

C15: from Latin rēicere to throw back, from re- + jacere to hurl

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Medical definitions for reject

reject

[ rĭ-jĕkt′ ]

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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