noun
- The person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality.
- synonyms: cull
verb
- Refuse to accept or acknowledge.
- usage: "I reject the idea of starting a war"; "The journal rejected the student's paper"
- Refuse to accept.
- usage: "He refused my offer of hospitality"
- Deem wrong or inappropriate.
- usage: "I disapprove of her child rearing methods"
- synonyms: disapprove
- Reject with contempt.
- usage: "She spurned his advances"
- Resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ.
- usage: "His body rejected the liver of the donor"
- Refuse entrance or membership.
- usage: "They turned away hundreds of fans"; "Black people were often rejected by country clubs"
- Dismiss from consideration or a contest.
- usage: "John was ruled out as a possible suspect because he had a strong alibi"; "This possibility can be eliminated from our consideration"
- synonyms: rule out, eliminate, winnow out
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