vt 1  :  to rebuff, repel, refuse to hear, or withhold love from : esp  :  to communicate negative feelings toward and a wish to be free of <parents who their children>   2  :  to subject to immunological rejection <ed a heart transplant>  re*jec*tive adj 
 
 
 
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