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re⋅ject

  [v. ri-jekt; n. ree-jekt]
Use reject in a Sentence
–verb (used with object)
1. to refuse to have, take, recognize, etc.: to reject the offer of a better job.
2. to refuse to grant (a request, demand, etc.).
3. to refuse to accept (someone or something); rebuff: The other children rejected him. The publisher rejected the author's latest novel.
4. to discard as useless or unsatisfactory: The mind rejects painful memories.
5. to cast out or eject; vomit.
6. to cast out or off.
7. 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
8. something rejected, as an imperfect article.
Origin:
1485–95; (v.) < L rējectus, ptp. of rējicere to throw back, equiv. to re- re- + jec-, comb. form of jacere to throw + -tus ptp. suffix

Related forms:
re⋅ject⋅a⋅ble, adjective
re⋅ject⋅er, noun
re⋅jec⋅tive, adjective

Synonyms:
1. See refuse 1 . 1, 2. deny. 3. repel, renounce. 4. eliminate, jettison. 8. second.
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re·ject   (rĭ-jěkt')   
tr.v.   re·ject·ed, re·ject·ing, re·jects
  1. To refuse to accept, submit to, believe, or make use of.
  2. To refuse to consider or grant; deny.
  3. To refuse to recognize or give affection to (a person).
  4. To discard as defective or useless; throw away. See Synonyms at refuse1.
  5. To spit out or vomit.
  6. 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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Reject

Re*ject"\ (r?-j?kt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rejected; p. pr. & vb. n. Rejecting.] [L. rejectus, p. p. of reicere, rejicere; pref. re- re- + jacere to throw: cf. F. rejeter, formerly also spelt rejecter. See Jet a shooting forth.]

1. To cast from one; to throw away; to discard.

Therefore all this exercise of hunting . . . the Utopians have rejected to their butchers. --Robynson (More's Utopia).

Reject me not from among thy children. --Wisdom ix. 4.

2. To refuse to receive or to acknowledge; to decline haughtily or harshly; to repudiate.

That golden scepter which thou didst reject. --Milton.

Because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me. --Hos. iv. 6.

3. To refuse to grant; as, to reject a prayer or request.

Syn: To repel; renounce; discard; rebuff; refuse; decline.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : reject
Spanish: rechazar,
German: ablehnen,
Japanese: 拒絶する
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reject 
c.1415, from L. rejectus, pp. of reicere "to throw back," from re- "back" + -icere, comb. form of jacere "to throw" (see jet (v.)). The noun is first recorded 1555; rare before 20c. Rejection in the psychological sense, relating to parenting, is recorded from 1931.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Main Entry: re·ject
Pronunciation: ri-'jekt
Function: transitive verb
: to refuse to accept, acknowledge, or grant —compare REVOKE
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Main Entry: re·ject
Pronunciation: ri-'jekt
Function: transitive verb
1 : to rebuff, repel, refuse to hear, or withhold love from;especially : to communicate negative feelings toward and a wish to be free of reject their children>
2 : to subject to immunologicalrejection <rejected a heart transplant> —re·jec·tive /ri-'jek-tiv/ adjective
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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reject re·ject (rĭ-jěkt')
v. re·ject·ed, re·ject·ing, re·jects

  1. To refuse to accept, submit to, believe, or use something.
  2. To discard as defective or useless; throw away.
  3. To spit out or vomit.
  4. To resist immunologically introduction of a transplanted organ or tissue; fail to accept in one's body.

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