Thesaurus: reject

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1. v. t. To cast from one; to throw away; to discard.
2. v. t. To refuse to receive or to acknowledge; to decline haughtily or harshly; to repudiate.
3. v. t. To refuse to grant; as, to reject a prayer or request.
4. n. the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality
5. v. not accept something given or offered
6. v. not accept as true
7. v. deem wrong or inappropriate
8. v. reject with contempt
9. v. resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ
10. v. refuse entrance or membership
11. v. dismiss from consideration or a contest
12. 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. Hog. iv. 6. 3. To refuse to grant; as, to reject a prayer or request. Syn. -- To repel; renounce; discard; rebuff; refuse; decline.