As verbs the difference between eschew and reject
is that eschew is (formal) to avoid; to shun, to shy away from while reject is to refuse to accept.
As a noun reject is
something that is rejected.
eschew
English
Verb
(
en verb)
(formal) To avoid; to shun, to shy away from.
Usage notes
* The verb is not normally applied to the avoidance or shunning of a person or physical object, but rather, only to the avoidance or shunning of an idea, concept, or other intangible.
Quotations
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, 1900s=1927
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*
*: What cannot be eschew’d must be embrac’d.
* 1927 ,
*: He could afford no servants, and would admit but few visitors to his absolute solitude; eschewing close friendships and receiving his rare acquaintances in one of the three ground-floor rooms which he kept in order.
* '>citation
Derived terms
* (l)
Related terms
* shy
References
reject
Verb
(
en verb)
To refuse to accept.
*
, title=(
The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after
rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.}}
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(basketball) To block a shot, especially if it sends the ball off the court.
Synonyms
* (refuse to accept) decline, refuse, turn down, repudiate, disown, abnegate, abjure, deny
Antonyms
* (refuse to accept) accept, take up
Noun
(
en noun)
Something that is rejected.
An unpopular person.
Synonyms
* (something that is rejected) castaway
* (an unpopular person) outcast, castaway, alien
