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rejector

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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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