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reject

English

  1. 🔊 the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality
  2. 🔊 refuse to accept or acknowledge
    “I reject the idea of starting a war”
  3. 🔊 reject with contempt
    “She spurned his advances”
  4. 🔊 refuse entrance or membership
    “They turned away hundreds of fans”
  5. 🔊 deem wrong or inappropriate
    “I disapprove of her child rearing methods”
  6. 🔊 refuse to accept
    “He refused my offer of hospitality”
  7. 🔊 resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ
    “His body rejected the liver of the donor”
  8. 🔊 dismiss from consideration or a contest
    “John was ruled out as a possible suspect because he had a strong alibi”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 desestimar to reject
  2. 🔊 repulsar to reject, refuse
  3. 🔊 descreer to reject, discard, disbelieve
  4. 🔊 rechazar to reject, to turn down, to turn away, to refuse, to dismiss, to shun, to decline

Similar words

cull rule out eliminate winnow out spurn freeze off scorn pooh-pooh disdain turn down disapprove refuse pass up turn down decline turn down turn away refuse resist refuse abandon abjure ban bar