Reject vs. Refuse

To refuse to accept, submit to, believe, or make use of

To indicate unwillingness to do, accept, give, or allow

(transitive) To refuse to accept.

To indicate unwillingness (to do something)

(basketball) To block a shot, especially if it sends the ball off the court.

To decline to jump (an obstacle). Used of a horse.

To refuse a romantic advance.

To decline to do, accept, give, or allow something.

Something that is rejected.

Items or material discarded or rejected as useless or worthless; trash or rubbish.

An unpopular person.

Discarded, rejected.

(colloquial) A rejected defective product in a production line.

Collectively, items or material that have been discarded; rubbish, garbage.

(aviation) A rejected takeoff.

(obsolete) refusal

To cast from one; to throw away; to discard.

(transitive) To decline (a request or demand).

To refuse to receive or to acknowledge; to decline haughtily or harshly; to repudiate.

(intransitive) To decline a request or demand, forbear; to withhold permission.

To refuse to grant; as, to reject a prayer or request.

(military) To throw back, or cause to keep back (as the centre, a wing, or a flank), out of the regular alignment when troops are about to engage the enemy.

The person or thing rejected or set aside as inferior in quality

To disown.

Refuse to accept or acknowledge;

To melt again.

Refuse to accept;

To deny, as a request, demand, invitation, or command; to decline to do or grant.

Deem wrong or inappropriate;

To throw back, or cause to keep back (as the center, a wing, or a flank), out of the regular aligment when troops ar about to engage the enemy; as, to refuse the right wing while the left wing attacks.

Reject with contempt;

To decline to accept; to reject; to deny the request or petition of; as, to refuse a suitor.

Resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ;

To disown.

Refuse entrance or membership;

To deny compliance; not to comply.

Dismiss from consideration;

Refusal.

That which is refused or rejected as useless; waste or worthless matter.

Refused; rejected; hence; left as unworthy of acceptance; of no value; worthless.

Food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)

Show unwillingness towards;

Refuse to accept;

Elude, especially in a baffling way;

Refuse to let have;

Resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ;

Refuse entrance or membership;