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re·ject Audio Help (rĭ-jěkt') Pronunciation Key
tr.v. re·ject·ed, re·ject·ing, re·jects

To refuse to accept, submit to, believe, or make use of.
To refuse to consider or grant; deny.
To refuse to recognize or give affection to (a person).
To discard as defective or useless; throw away. See Synonyms at refuse¹.
To spit out or vomit.
Medicine To resist immunologically the introduction of (a transplanted organ or tissue); fail to accept as part of one's own body.

n. (rē'jěkt)
One that has been rejected: a reject from the varsity team; a tire that is a reject.

[Middle English rejecten, from Latin rēicere, rēiect- : re-, re- + iacere, to throw; see yē- in Indo-European roots.]

re·ject'er, re·jec'tor n., re·jec'tive adj.

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