reject : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: reject	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for reject
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
reject n the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality Synonym(s): cull, reject v refuse to accept or acknowledge; "I reject the idea of starting a war"; "The journal rejected the student's paper" Antonym(s): accept refuse to accept; "He refused my offer of hospitality" Synonym(s): refuse, reject, pass up, turn down, decline Antonym(s): accept, have, take deem wrong or inappropriate; "I disapprove of her child rearing methods" Synonym(s): disapprove, reject Antonym(s): O.K., approve, okay, sanction reject with contempt; "She spurned his advances" Synonym(s): reject, spurn, freeze off, scorn, pooh-pooh, disdain, turn down resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ; "His body rejected the liver of the donor" Synonym(s): resist, reject, refuse refuse entrance or membership; "They turned away hundreds of fans"; "Black people were often rejected by country clubs" Synonym(s): reject, turn down, turn away, refuse Antonym(s): admit, allow in, intromit, let in 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" Synonym(s): rule out, eliminate, winnow out, reject
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Reject \Reject"\ (r?-j?kt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Rejected}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rejecting}.] [L. rejectus, p. p. of reicere, rejicere; pref. re- re- + jacere to throw: cf. F. rejeter, formerly also spelt rejecter. See {Jet} a shooting forth.] 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. --Hos. iv. 6. 3. To refuse to grant; as, to reject a prayer or request. Syn: To repel; renounce; discard; rebuff; refuse; decline.