Repeal vs Reject - What's the difference?
repeal | reject |
To cancel, invalidate, annul.
To recall; to summon (a person) again.
* Shakespeare
To suppress; to repel.
* Milton
To refuse to accept.
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, 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.
In lang=en terms the difference between repeal and reject
is that repeal is to cancel, invalidate, annul while reject is to refuse to accept.As verbs the difference between repeal and reject
is that repeal is to cancel, invalidate, annul while reject is to refuse to accept.As nouns the difference between repeal and reject
is that repeal is an act or instance of repealing while reject is something that is rejected.repeal
English
Verb
(en verb)- to repeal a law
- The banished Bolingbroke repeals himself, / And with uplifted arms is safe arrived.
- Whence Adam soon repealed / The doubts that in his heart arose.
