reject

Definition

  • verb: to refuse to believe, accept, or consider (something)
  • verb: to refuse to accept, consider, submit to, take for some purpose, or use
  • synonyms: discard, repudiate, abnegate

Examples

  • One way to save on clothing costs is to buy (factory) 'rejects'. [=clothes that are sold for a lower price because they have flaws]

  • She 'rejected' the package/letter [=she did not accept the delivery of the package, letter, etc.] and returned it unopened.

  • The patient's immune system 'rejected' the transplanted heart. = The patient 'rejected' the transplanted heart.

Movie quotes

  • (..) Cottonmouth. See here? Thing with anti-venom is, they can only give it to you once. Made of horse blood. Body would reject it a second time. So the cure becomes more dangerous than the poison. What happens if you get bit again? I die or just sweat it out. (..)
    2012 Mud