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(v)
(idiomatic) To refuse, decline, or deny.
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(transitive) To decline (a request or demand).
To have or express an unfavorable opinion.
(transitive, figuratively) To refuse to admit someone or accept something.
(ambitransitive) To reject disdainfully; contemn; scorn.
(transitive) To completely remove, get rid of, put an end to.
(transitive) To feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.
(transitive) To regard (someone or something) with strong contempt.
(n)
The act of declining or refusing something.
To pick or take someone or something (from a larger group).
(idiomatic, transitive) To refuse (not accept); forgo.
(idiomatic, transitive) To reject an option from a list of possibilities.
(transitive) To dismiss idly with contempt or derision; to diminish.
reject with contempt
The act of refusing.
The act of rejecting.
The act of refusing to accept; the act of repudiating.
To refuse to allow.
(transitive) To reject the truth or validity of; to deny.
(transitive) To assert that something is not true.
The action of not allowing, or of withdrawing allowance.
(transitive) To refuse; to offer sudden or harsh resistance; to turn down or shut out.
(transitive) To drive back (an assailant, advancing force etc.).
(transitive) To refuse to own, or to refuse to acknowledge one’s own.
(transitive, formal) To avoid; to shun, to shy away from.
(transitive) To make ineligible for something.
(transitive) To avoid, especially persistently; ostracize.
(transitive) To repel or drive back.
(transitive) To renounce or deny something, especially under oath.
(transitive) To use a veto against.
To deny the truth of something, especially by presenting arguments that disprove it.
To do without (something enjoyable); to relinquish.
A refusal or failure to provide or grant something that is requested or desired.
(transitive) To solemnly reject (someone or something); to abandon (someone or something) forever; to disavow, to disclaim, to repudiate.
(transitive) To bar (someone or something) from entering; to keep out.
To deny the existence, evidence, or truth of; to contradict.
(transitive) To keep (information, assent etc) to oneself rather than revealing it.
(transitive) To give up, resign, surrender.
(intransitive) To oppose; to refuse to accept.
(transitive) To give up or relinquish control of, to surrender or to give oneself over, or to yield to one's emotions.
A statement expressing opposition, or a reason or cause for expressing opposition (generally followed by the adposition to).
(transitive) To prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; to refute.
(transitive) To cancel, invalidate, annul.
(transitive) To prove (something) to be false or incorrect.
The act of disapproving; condemnation.
(intransitive) To fail to agree; to have a different opinion or belief.
(transitive) To strongly criticise or denounce; to excoriate.
(transitive) To repeal, annul, or declare void; to take (something such as a rule or contract) out of effect.
To delay or put off an event, appointment, etc.
To attempt to stop the progression of; to resist or antagonize by physical means, or by arguments, etc.; to contend against.
(transitive) To ignore; to pay no attention to.
To separate (oneself); to dissolve one's association with a person, group, or situation.
Deprivation of office; the fact or process of being fired from employment or stripped of rank.
(transitive) To discharge; to end the employment or service of.
(transitive) To give up, abandon or retire from something; to trade away.
(ambitransitive) To withdraw or repudiate a statement or opinion formerly expressed, especially formally and publicly.
To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.
(transitive) To end something, especially when left in an incomplete state.
(transitive, law) To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forgo.
To defeat decisively, to suppress.
(intransitive, with of) To eliminate or to get rid of something.
(transitive) To let go of; to cease to hold or contain.
(transitive) To throw away, to reject.
(transitive) To remove (fears, doubts, objections etc.) by proving them unjustified.
The act by which something is discarded; a throwing away.
(transitive) To have a feeling of aversion or antipathy towards; not to like.
To free of a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to forgive; to clear.
(countable) A disposing of or getting rid of something.
To spring back; rebound; resume the original form or position, as an elastic body.
(transitive) To regard (someone or something) as horrifying or detestable; to feel great repugnance toward.
To not believe; to exercise disbelief.
Abhorrence, a sense of loathing, intense aversion, repugnance, repulsion, horror.
(uncountable, countable) Extreme aversion or detestation; the feeling of utter dislike or loathing.
To make something become nothing; to reject or cancel.
(transitive) To overcome in battle or contest.
(transitive) To overthrow or destroy.
To contradict, oppose.
(intransitive) To go in the reverse direction.
(transitive) To evict, especially from a country.
(transitive) To rule or determine in a contrary way; to decide against; to abrogate or alter.
(transitive) To send out or give off.
(transitive) To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position.
To act as a counterweight; to counterbalance.
(transitive) To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.
(transitive) To fight; to struggle against.
(transitive) To discard; to get rid of.
(transitive) To hurl; to release (an object) with some force from one’s hands, an apparatus, etc. so that it moves rapidly through the air.
(transitive) To divide and distribute portions of a whole.
(intransitive) To disagree with or oppose something or someone; (especially in a Court of Law) to raise an objection.
To precede, to go before.
(transitive) To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.
(transitive) To fill or obstruct (something) so that it is not possible to pass.
(intransitive) To move hastily, to scurry.
(transitive) To put money or funds into an account.
(transitive) To choose not to do something; refuse, forbear, refrain.