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• v  refuse to accept or acknowledge
  The journal rejected the student's paper
• v  refuse to accept
• v  deem wrong or inappropriate
• v  reject with contempt
• v  resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ
  His body rejected the liver of the donor
• v  refuse entrance or membership
  Black people were often rejected by country clubs
• v  dismiss from consideration or a contest
• s  rebuffed (by a lover) without warning

• A county court rules that he can get access to the names of voters who cast rejected absentee ballots.
• The Franken campaign has made the rejected absentee ballots a major element in its strategy for victory.
• That of the parliamentary leader who rejected the highest office in her adoptive land, one she had earned by her hard work and political courage?.

• reject
• refuse
• pass up
• turn down
• decline
• disapprove
• spurn
• freeze off
• scorn
• pooh-pooh
• disdain
• resist
• turn away
• rule out
• eliminate
• winnow out
• jilted
• spurned

• accept
• approve
• admit

News & Articles

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• Rejected budget frustrates Mexico department heads
  MEXICO — Department heads were frustrated Wednesday afternoon after learning that residents had rejected a majority of the proposed municipal budget Tuesday.
  June 13, 2013 - The Lewiston Sun Journal
• EUR/USD Rejected at $1.3400; USD/JPY Falls Continues, Touches Sub-¥94.00
  EUR/USD Rejected at $1.3400; USD/JPY Falls Continues, Touches Sub-¥94.00
  June 13, 2013 - DailyFX via Yahoo! Finance
• Variance rejected for University of Scranton's $47.5m project
  The Scranton Zoning Board rejected a variance sought by the University of Scranton for a new, $47.5 million, eight-story rehabilitation center to replace Leahy Hall. The university needed sight variance because Leahy Hall, part of which is the 1907 YWCA
  June 12, 2013 - The Scranton Times-Tribune

Quotes

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• John Boehner in Moneycontrol.com
  The president has crippled the credibility of this week's summit by proposing the same massive government takeover of healthcare based on a partisan bill the American people have already rejected,said John Boehner, the top Republican in the...
• Mitt Romney in Reuters
  Like him, I am an American running for president. I do not define my candidacy by my religion. A person should not be elected because of his faith nor should he be rejected because of his faith,Romney said.
• George Voinovich in The Hill (blog)
  He flatly rejected this request even though Democratic leadership was going to take $10 billion from the stimulus to help pay for business tax breaks just last week,Voinovich said in prepared remarks. "My concern is that Democrats are more...