reject
/ɹɪˈd͡ʒɛkt/ verb B1- To refuse to accept; to forswear. · She even rejected my improved offer.
- To block a shot, especially if it sends the ball off the court.
- To refuse a romantic advance. · I've been rejected three times this week.
He/she/it rejects · Past rejected · Past participle rejected · -ing form rejecting
Verb forms
- Base form
- reject
- He/she/it
- rejects
- Past
- rejected
- Past participle
- rejected
- -ing form
- rejecting
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I was offered some Mayflowers too, but I rejected them with scorn.
Collins, with a formal wave of the hand, “that it is usual with young ladies to reject the addresses of the man whom they secretly mean to accept, when he first applies for their favour; and that sometimes the refusal is repeated a second or even a third time.
I might, perhaps, wish to be informed why, with so little _endeavour_ at civility, I am thus rejected.
There was now an interest, however, in believing the housekeeper; and they soon became sensible that the authority of a servant, who had known him since he was four years old, and whose own manners indicated respectability, was not to be hastily rejected.
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