<p><strong>Verb (used with object):</strong></p><ul><li>to refuse to have, take, recognize, etc.: to reject the offer of a better job.</li><li>Synonyms: deny.</li><li>to refuse to grant (a request, demand, etc.): Synonyms: deny.</li><li>to refuse to accept (someone or something); rebuff: The other children rejected him. The publisher rejected the author's latest novel.</li><li>Synonyms: renounce, repel.</li><li>to discard as useless or unsatisfactory: The mind rejects painful memories.</li><li>Synonyms: jettison, eliminate.</li><li>to cast out or eject; vomit.</li><li>to cast out or off.</li><li>Medicine/Medical: (of a human or other animal) to have an immunological reaction against (a transplanted organ or grafted tissue): If tissue types are not matched properly, a patient undergoing a transplant will reject the graft.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>something rejected, as an imperfect article.</li><li>Synonyms: second.</li></ul>