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.
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to cast out or off.
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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.
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something rejected, as an imperfect article.
[Origin: 1485–95; (v.) < L réjectus, ptp. of réjicere to throw back, equiv. to re-re-+ jec-, comb. form of jacere to throw + -tus ptp. suffix]
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.
the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality [syn: cull]
verb
1.
refuse to accept or acknowledge; "I reject the idea of starting a war"; "The journal rejected the student's paper" [ant: accept]
2.
refuse to accept; "He refused my offer of hospitality" [syn: refuse] [ant: accept]
3.
deem wrong or inappropriate; "I disapprove of her child rearing methods" [syn: disapprove] [ant: approve]
4.
reject with contempt; "She spurned his advances"
5.
resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ; "His body rejected the liver of the donor" [syn: resist]
6.
refuse entrance or membership; "They turned away hundreds of fans"; "Black people were often rejected by country clubs" [ant: admit]
7.
dismiss from consideration or a contest; "John was ruled out as a possible suspect because he had a strong alibi"; "This possibility can be eliminated from our consideration" [syn: rule out]
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 <parents who reject their children> 2: to subject to immunological
rejection <rejected a heart transplant> —re·jec·tive/ri-'jek-tiv/adjective
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.
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