reject
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
reject
▶verb /rɪˈdʒɛkt/
- 1 dismiss as inadequate or faulty.
■ refuse to consider or agree to.
- 2 fail to show due affection or concern for.
- 3 Medicine show a damaging immune response to (a transplanted organ or tissue).
– derivatives
rejection noun,
rejective adjective (rare),
rejector noun.
rejection noun,
rejective adjective (rare),
rejector noun.
– origin ME: from L. reject-, reicere ‘throw back’.
'reject' also found in these Oxford entries:
abject
- abnegate
- back
- big
- blackball
- can
- canvas
- deselect
- Digambara
- disdain
- eighty-six
- elbow
- eliminate
- explode
- first refusal
- flick
- local option
- negative
- offer
- override
- overrule
- quash
- rebuff
- repel
- rubbish
- scorn
- scout
- shun
- spike
- spurn
- squash
- tare
- throw
- turn
- veto
- wipe
