Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To refuse to accept, submit to, believe, or make use of: synonym: refuse.
- transitive verb To refuse to consider or grant; deny.
- transitive verb To turn down (an applicant, as for a job); refuse to accept.
- transitive verb To refuse to accept (someone) as a lover, spouse, or friend; rebuff.
- transitive verb To refuse to give sufficient parental affection or care to (a child or young animal).
- transitive verb To spit out or vomit.
- transitive verb Medicine To resist immunologically the introduction of (a transplanted organ or tissue); fail to accept as part of one's own body.
- noun One that has been rejected.
- noun Slang A foolish or socially inept person.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To throw or cast back.
- To throw away, as anything undesirable or useless; cast off; discard: as, to pick out the good and reject the bad; to reject a lover.
- To refuse to receive; decline haughtily or harshly; slight; despise.
- Synonyms To throw aside, cast off. See
refuse . - noun That which is rejected or thrown out; a cull; specifically, in prehistoric archæol., an unfinished stone implement, spoiled or broken in the process of manufacture.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To cast from one; to throw away; to discard.
- transitive verb To refuse to receive or to acknowledge; to decline haughtily or harshly; to repudiate.
- transitive verb To refuse to grant.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive to
refuse toaccept - verb sports to block a shot, especially if it sends the ball off the court.
- noun Something that is rejected.
- noun derogatory slang An
unpopular person.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ
- verb refuse to accept or acknowledge
- verb reject with contempt
- verb refuse entrance or membership
- verb deem wrong or inappropriate
- noun the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality
- verb refuse to accept
- verb dismiss from consideration or a contest
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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In my humble opinion the reject is a better comic but maybe it does not get the point across as well.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Bonus comic: Stack Overflow 2008
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What a lot of people will reject is any proposal that they think includes anything that smacks of an “amnesty” or a reward to people who have broken the law because they assume – based on experience with the 1986 law – that it will just encourage even more people to break the law in anticipation of another amnesty.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Libertarian Critiques of AZ Immigration Law 2010
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I am willing to wager finding 50 votes to reject is doable. (you have to count Biden) However finding that 51st is going to be monumental.
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The big thing you reject is that, in the place in question, the Palestinians were there in the first place.
Matthew Yglesias » Muslims Want Us Out of the Middle East 2009
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Republicans once again reject their own ideas in their efforts to screw over Obama.
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Sure, he looks like an reject from the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory but nerds are so in right now.
Pink is the New Blog | Everybody's Business Is My Business » Blog Archive » A New Man For TR Knight? 2010
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But what I reject is when some folks are on the sidelines and root for failure on health care ... or they root for failure on getting the Olympics.
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Republicans once again reject their own ideas in their efforts to screw over Obama.
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As for Plugged In Online, the only comment I reject, that I think all three of us here would reject, is the casual statement that Christians '"better judgment" would "normally push vampire flicks out of bounds."
Archive 2008-12-01 2008
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As for Plugged In Online, the only comment I reject, that I think all three of us here would reject, is the casual statement that Christians '"better judgment" would "normally push vampire flicks out of bounds."
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