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Reject   /rɪdʒˈɛkt/  /rˈidʒɛkt/   Listen
Reject

verb
(past & past part. rejected; pres. part. rejecting)
1.
Refuse to accept or acknowledge.  "The journal rejected the student's paper"
2.
Refuse to accept.  Synonyms: decline, pass up, refuse, turn down.
3.
Deem wrong or inappropriate.  Synonym: disapprove.
4.
Reject with contempt.  Synonyms: disdain, freeze off, pooh-pooh, scorn, spurn, turn down.
5.
Resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ.  Synonyms: refuse, resist.
6.
Refuse entrance or membership.  Synonyms: refuse, turn away, turn down.  "Black people were often rejected by country clubs"
7.
Dismiss from consideration or a contest.  Synonyms: eliminate, rule out, winnow out.  "This possibility can be eliminated from our consideration"
noun
1.
The person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality.  Synonym: cull.



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"Reject" Quotes from Famous Books



... stranger cause yet unexplor'd, Could make a gentle belle reject a lord; In tasks so bold, can little men engage, And in soft ...
— Harrison's Amusing Picture and Poetry Book • Unknown
... so strongly as she did, to the miraculous character of her own mission and that it was not so much the strength of her troops as the help of God that got her the victory. But it was not her part to reject or alienate any champion of France. We have an account of their meeting given by a retainer of Richemont, which is picturesque enough. "The Maid alighted from her horse, and the Constable also. 'Jeanne,' he said, 'they tell me that you are against me. I know not if you are from God (de la part ...
— Jeanne d'Arc - Her Life And Death • Mrs.(Margaret) Oliphant
... everybody will know that I am the daughter of that Mr. Walton who would have thrown his pen in the fire if you had meddled with any thing he wrote. They would be praising me, if they praised at all. The name is nothing. Of all things, to have praise you don't deserve, and not to be able to reject it, is the most miserable! It is as bad as ...
— The Vicar's Daughter • George MacDonald
... life; I did dissemble, but the hour has come For utter truth and plainness; wherefore, I say, I hold by all I wrote within that book. Moreover, As for the Pope I count him Antichrist, With all his devil's doctrines; and refuse, Reject him, and ...
— Queen Mary and Harold • Alfred Lord Tennyson
... "that we are the only king in Europe that is sought for by friend and foe for his mediation. It would be for this our lofty part very unbecoming if we were capable of favouring one of the parties. Your suggestion that we might secretly support the Bohemians we must totally reject, as it is not our way to do anything that we would not willingly confess ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley


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