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reject - refuse to accept or acknowledge; "I reject the idea of starting a war"; "The journal rejected the student's paper" |
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accept tolerate or accommodate oneself to; "I shall have to accept these unpleasant working conditions"; "I swallowed the insult"; "She has learned to live with her husband's little idiosyncrasies"
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pass judgment,
evaluate,
judge form a critical opinion of; "I cannot judge some works of modern art"; "How do you evaluate this grant proposal?" "We shouldn't pass judgment on other people"
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disbelieve,
discredit reject as false; refuse to accept
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repudiate refuse to acknowledge, ratify, or recognize as valid; "The woman repudiated the divorce settlement"
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recuse challenge or except to a judge as being incompetent or interested, in canon and civil law
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reprobate reject (documents) as invalid
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disown,
renounce,
repudiate cast off; "She renounced her husband"; "The parents repudiated their son"
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brush aside,
brush off,
discount,
push aside,
disregard,
ignore,
dismiss give a reduction in price on; "I never discount these books-they sell like hot cakes"
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reject - reject with contempt; "She spurned his advances" |
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spurn,
scorn,
disdain |
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pass up,
turn down,
refuse,
decline,
reject fail to acknowledge; "he passed me up in the street"
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turn away,
turn down,
refuse,
reject move so as not face somebody or something
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refuse,
decline show unwillingness towards; "he declined to join the group on a hike"
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rebuff,
snub,
repel reject outright and bluntly; "She snubbed his proposal"
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reject - refuse entrance or membership; "They turned away hundreds of fans"; "Black people were often rejected by country clubs" |
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refuse |
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allow in,
intromit,
let in,
admit declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of; "He admitted his errors"; "She acknowledged that she might have forgotten"
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freeze off,
spurn,
disdain,
pooh-pooh,
scorn,
turn down,
reject express contempt about
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