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Rejected vs Removed - What's the difference?

rejected | removed |

As verbs the difference between rejected and removed

is that rejected is past tense of reject while removed is past tense of remove.

As an adjective removed is

separated in time, space, or degree.

rejected

English

Verb

(head)
  • (reject)

    • reject

    English

    (wikipedia 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.}}
  • (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

    Related terms

    * rejection English heteronyms

    removed

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Separated in time, space, or degree.
    • Now that we are here one week removed .
  • Of a different generation, older or younger
    • Steve is my second cousin once removed .

    Verb

    (head)
  • (remove)

    • See also

    * cousin * once removed * twice removed ----