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Verb reject has 7 senses
- reject - refuse to accept or acknowledge; "I reject the idea of starting a war"; "The journal rejected the student's paper"
--1 is one way to judge
Antonyms: accept
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
- refuse, reject, pass up, turn down, decline - refuse to accept; "He refused my offer of hospitality"
Sample sentence:
They reject the money
- disapprove, reject - deem wrong or inappropriate; "I disapprove of her child rearing methods"
--3 is one way to judge
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
- reject, spurn, freeze off, scorn, pooh-pooh, disdain, turn down - reject with contempt; "She spurned his advances"
--4 is one way to refuse, decline
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
- resist, reject, refuse - resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ; "His body rejected the liver of the donor"
--5 is one way to react, respond
Sample sentence:
Something ----s something
- reject, turn down, turn away, refuse - refuse entrance or membership; "They turned away hundreds of fans"; "Black people were often rejected by country clubs"
Antonyms: admit, allow in, let in, intromit
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
- rule out, eliminate, reject - dismiss from consideration; "John was ruled out as a possible suspect because he had a strong alibi"; "This possibility can be eliminated from our consideration"
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Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
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