re·ject
(rĭ-jĕkt́)
[Middle English rejecten, from Latin rēicere, rēiect-, re-, re-, + iacere, to throw.]
transitive verb: -ject·ed, -ject·ing, -jects.
- To refuse to accept, submit to, believe, or make use of.
- To refuse to consider or grant; deny.
- To refuse to recognize or give affection to (a person).
- To discard as defective or useless; throw away. See synonyms at refuse1
- To spit out or vomit.
- Medicine To resist immunologically the introduction of (a transplanted organ or tissue); fail to accept as part of one's own body.
noun
- One that has been rejected: a reject from the varsity team; a tire that is a reject.
derivatives
- re·ject́er
- noun
- re·jećtive
- adjective