Refuse vs. Reject

Refuseadjective

Discarded, rejected.

Refusenoun

Collectively, items or material that have been discarded; rubbish, garbage.

Refusenoun

(obsolete) refusal

Refuseverb

(transitive) To decline (a request or demand).

Refuseverb

(intransitive) To decline a request or demand, forbear; to withhold permission.

Refuseverb

(military) To throw back, or cause to keep back (as the centre, a wing, or a flank), out of the regular alignment when troops are about to engage the enemy.

Refuseverb

To disown.

Refuseverb

To deny, as a request, demand, invitation, or command; to decline to do or grant.

Refuseverb

To throw back, or cause to keep back (as the center, a wing, or a flank), out of the regular aligment when troops ar about to engage the enemy; as, to refuse the right wing while the left wing attacks.

Refuseverb

To decline to accept; to reject; to deny the request or petition of; as, to refuse a suitor.

Refuseverb

To disown.

Refuseverb

To deny compliance; not to comply.

Refusenoun

Refusal.

Refusenoun

That which is refused or rejected as useless; waste or worthless matter.

Refuseadjective

Refused; rejected; hence; left as unworthy of acceptance; of no value; worthless.

Refusenoun

food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)

Refuseverb

show unwillingness towards;

Refuseverb

refuse to accept;

Refuseverb

elude, especially in a baffling way;

Refuseverb

refuse to let have;

Refuseverb

resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ;

Refuseverb

refuse entrance or membership;

Rejectverb

(transitive) To refuse to accept.

Rejectverb

(basketball) To block a shot, especially if it sends the ball off the court.

Rejectverb

To refuse a romantic advance.

Rejectnoun

Something that is rejected.

Rejectnoun

An unpopular person.

Rejectnoun

(colloquial) a rejected defective product in a production line

Rejectverb

To cast from one; to throw away; to discard.

Rejectverb

To refuse to receive or to acknowledge; to decline haughtily or harshly; to repudiate.

Rejectverb

To refuse to grant; as, to reject a prayer or request.

Rejectnoun

the person or thing rejected or set aside as inferior in quality

Rejectverb

refuse to accept or acknowledge;

Rejectverb

refuse to accept;

Rejectverb

deem wrong or inappropriate;

Rejectverb

reject with contempt;

Rejectverb

resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ;

Rejectverb

refuse entrance or membership;

Rejectverb

dismiss from consideration;