reject
reject is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.2. 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. Hog. iv.
- 2.3. To refuse to grant; as, to reject a prayer or request.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Synonyms (Webster's 1913)
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abandon
- abandonment
- about
- apart
- aside
- away
- banish
- bar
- bating
- behind
- blackball
- cast
- cede
- cession
- chosen
- cofferdam
- course
- culls
- declination
- decline
- deed
- deny
- derelict
- dereliction
- disburden
- discard
- disclaim
- disjoin
- dismiss
- dispensation
- dispose
- dispossess
- disuse
- divest
- done
- down
- drop
- eject
- eliminate
- elimination
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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