Reject vs Discarded - What's the difference?
reject | discarded |
To refuse to accept.
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(basketball) To block a shot, especially if it sends the ball off the court.
(discard)
to throw away, to reject.
* I. Taylor
(card games) To make a discard; to throw out a card.
To dismiss from employment, confidence, or favour; to discharge.
* Jonathan Swift
As verbs the difference between reject and discarded
is that reject is to refuse to accept while discarded is (discard).As a noun reject
is something that is rejected.reject
English
(wikipedia reject)Verb
(en verb)Synonyms
* (refuse to accept) decline, refuse, turn down, repudiate, disown, abnegate, abjure, denyAntonyms
* (refuse to accept) accept, take upSynonyms
* (something that is rejected) castaway * (an unpopular person) outcast, castaway, aliendiscarded
English
Verb
(head)discard
English
Verb
(en verb)- A man discards the follies of boyhood.
- They blame the favourites, and think it nothing extraordinary that the queen should resolve to discard them.
