to refuse to accept, consider, submit to, or use (something)
to refuse to accept or admit (somebody)
The underprivileged feel rejected by society
to fail to accept (e.g. a skin graft or transplanted organ) as part of the organism because of immunological differences
rejecter noun
rejection /-sh(ə)n/ noun
rejector noun
[Middle English rejecten from Latin rejectus, past part. of reicere to throw back, from re- + jacere to throw]