Abnegate vs. Reject

Abnegateverb

(transitive) To deny (oneself something); to renounce or give up (a right, a power, a claim, a privilege, a convenience).

Rejectverb

(transitive) To refuse to accept.

‘She even rejected my improved offer.’;

Abnegateverb

(transitive) To relinquish; to surrender; to abjure.

Rejectverb

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

Abnegateverb

To deny and reject; to abjure.

Rejectverb

To refuse a romantic advance.

‘I've been rejected three times this week.’;

Abnegateverb

deny oneself (something); restrain, especially from indulging in some pleasure;

‘She denied herself wine and spirits’;

Rejectnoun

Something that is rejected.

Abnegateverb

surrender;

‘The King abnegated his power to the ministers’;

Rejectnoun

An unpopular person.

Abnegateverb

deny or renounce;

‘They abnegated their gods’;

Rejectnoun

(colloquial) a rejected defective product in a production line

Rejectverb

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

‘Therefore all this exercise of hunting . . . the Utopians have rejected to their butchers.’; ‘Reject me not from among thy children.’;

Rejectverb

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

‘That golden scepter which thou didst reject.’; ‘Because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me.’;

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;

‘I reject the idea of starting a war’; ‘The journal rejected the student's paper’;

Rejectverb

refuse to accept;

‘He refused my offer of hospitality’;

Rejectverb

deem wrong or inappropriate;

‘I disapprove of her child rearing methods’;

Rejectverb

reject with contempt;

‘She spurned his advances’;

Rejectverb

resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ;

‘His body rejected the liver of the donor’;

Rejectverb

refuse entrance or membership;

‘They turned away hundreds of fans’; ‘Black people were often rejected by country clubs’;

Rejectverb

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’;