| reject | (noun) the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality | Synonyms: cull |
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| (verb) not accept something given or offered | - |
| (verb) dismiss from consideration or a contest | Synonyms: eliminate, rule out, winnow out |
| (verb) deem wrong or inappropriate | Synonyms: disapprove |
| (verb) reject with contempt | Synonyms: disdain, freeze off, pooh-pooh, scorn, spurn, turn down |
| (verb) not accept as true | Synonyms: decline, pass up, refuse, turn down |
| (verb) refuse entrance or membership | Synonyms: refuse, turn away, turn down |
| (verb) resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ | Synonyms: refuse, resist |
| rejected | (adjective) rebuffed (by a lover) without warning | Synonyms: jilted, spurned |
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| rejection | (noun) the act of rejecting something | - |
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| (noun) the speech act of rejecting | - |
| (noun) (medicine) an immunological response that refuses to accept substances or organisms that are recognized as foreign | - |
| (noun) the state of being rejected | - |
| rejective | (adjective) rejecting or tending to reject | - |
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| rejig | (verb) re-equip a factory or plant | Synonyms: re-equip |
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| rejoice | (verb) to express great joy | Synonyms: exuberate, exult, jubilate, triumph |
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| (verb) feel happiness or joy | Synonyms: joy |
| (verb) be ecstatic with joy | Synonyms: triumph, wallow |
| rejoicing | (adjective) joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success | Synonyms: exultant, exulting, jubilant, prideful, triumphal, triumphant |
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| (noun) the utterance of sounds expressing great joy | Synonyms: exultation, jubilation |
| (noun) a feeling of great happiness | - |
| rejoin | (verb) answer back | Synonyms: come back, repay, retort, return, riposte |
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| (verb) join again | - |
| rejoinder | (noun) a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one) | Synonyms: comeback, counter, replication, retort, return, riposte |
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| (noun) (law) a pleading made by a defendant in response to the plaintiff's replication | - |
| rejuvenate | (verb) become young again | - |
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| (verb) make younger or more youthful | - |
| (verb) develop youthful topographical features | - |
| (verb) get or give new life or energy; return to life, regain energy, recuperate | Synonyms: regenerate, restore |
| (verb) cause (a stream or river) to erode, as by an uplift of the land | - |
| rejuvenation | (noun) the act of restoring to a more youthful condition | - |
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| (noun) the phenomenon of vitality and freshness being restored | Synonyms: greening |
| rejuvenescence | (noun) A renewal of youthful characteristics or vitality. | - |
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