/ɹɪʤɛˈkts/ - [rijekts] -
We found 3 definitions of rejects from 2 different sources.
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reject - refuse to accept or acknowledge; "I reject the idea of starting a war"; "The journal rejected the student's paper" | ||
accept tolerate or accommodate oneself to; "I shall have to accept these unpleasant working conditions"; "I swallowed the insult"; "She has learned to live with her husband's little idiosyncrasies" | ||
pass judgment, evaluate, judge form a critical opinion of; "I cannot judge some works of modern art"; "How do you evaluate this grant proposal?" "We shouldn't pass judgment on other people" | ||
disbelieve, discredit reject as false; refuse to accept | ||
repudiate refuse to acknowledge, ratify, or recognize as valid; "The woman repudiated the divorce settlement" | ||
recuse challenge or except to a judge as being incompetent or interested, in canon and civil law | ||
reprobate reject (documents) as invalid | ||
disown, renounce, repudiate cast off; "She renounced her husband"; "The parents repudiated their son" | ||
brush aside, brush off, discount, push aside, disregard, ignore, dismiss give a reduction in price on; "I never discount these books-they sell like hot cakes" | ||
reject - reject with contempt; "She spurned his advances" | ||
spurn, freeze off, scorn, pooh-pooh, disdain, turn down | ||
pass up, turn down, refuse, decline, reject fail to acknowledge; "he passed me up in the street" | ||
turn away, turn down, refuse, reject move so as not face somebody or something | ||
refuse, decline show unwillingness towards; "he declined to join the group on a hike" | ||
rebuff, snub, repel reject outright and bluntly; "She snubbed his proposal" | ||
reject - refuse entrance or membership; "They turned away hundreds of fans"; "Black people were often rejected by country clubs" | ||
turn down, turn away, refuse | ||
allow in, intromit, let in, admit declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of; "He admitted his errors"; "She acknowledged that she might have forgotten" | ||
freeze off, spurn, disdain, pooh-pooh, scorn, turn down, reject express contempt about | ||
reject - deem wrong or inappropriate; "I disapprove of her child rearing methods" | ||
disapprove | ||
o.k., okay, approve, sanction judge to be right or commendable; think well of | ||
pass judgment, evaluate, judge form a critical opinion of; "I cannot judge some works of modern art"; "How do you evaluate this grant proposal?" "We shouldn't pass judgment on other people" | ||
object express or raise an objection or protest or criticism or express dissent; "She never objected to the amount of work her boss charged her with"; "When asked to drive the truck, she objected that she did not have a driver's license" | ||
deprecate belittle; "The teacher should not deprecate his student's efforts" | ||
deter, discourage try to prevent; show opposition to; "We should discourage this practice among our youth" | ||
reject - refuse to accept; "He refused my offer of hospitality" | ||
refuse, pass up, turn down, decline | ||
accept, have, take tolerate or accommodate oneself to; "I shall have to accept these unpleasant working conditions"; "I swallowed the insult"; "She has learned to live with her husband's little idiosyncrasies" | ||
freeze off, spurn, disdain, pooh-pooh, scorn, turn down, reject express contempt about | ||
dishonor, dishonour refuse to accept; "dishonor checks and drafts" | ||
bounce hit something so that it bounces; "bounce a ball" | ||
reject - resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ; "His body rejected the liver of the donor" | ||
resist, refuse | ||
react, respond undergo a chemical reaction; react with another substance under certain conditions; "The hydrogen and the oxygen react" | ||
reject - 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" | ||
rule out, eliminate, winnow out |