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reject
verb rejected, rejecting
    1. To refuse to accept, agree to, admit, believe, etc.
      Thesaurus: refuse, repudiate, decline, renounce, deny, disallow, rebuff, spurn, veto, cut (slang); Antonym: accept, welcome.
    2. To throw away or discard.
      Thesaurus: discard, cast off, cast out, throw out, eliminate, cut, exclude, jettison, expel, dump; Antonym: retain.
    3. medicine.
      Said of the body: to fail to accept (new tissue or an organ from another body).
noun
    1. Someone or something that is rejected.
      Thesaurus: discard, failure, cast-off.
    2. An imperfect article not accepted for import, normal sale, etc and offered for sale at a discount.
Derivative: rejectable
adj
    Derivative: rejection
    noun
      An act of spurning someone or something, or the state of being spurned
        Thesaurus: dismissal, refusal, repudiation, renunciation, elimination, rebuff, snub, brush-off (slang), exclusion, Dear John (slang).
    Derivative: rejective
    adj
      Derivative: rejector
      noun
        Etymology: 15c: from Latin rejicere, rejectum to throw back, from jacere to throw.



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