Reject vs. Refuse

Reject and Refuse Definitions
Reject
To refuse to accept, submit to, believe, or make use of
He rejected their version of what happened. The store rejected the merchandise because it was damaged.
Refuse
To indicate unwillingness to do, accept, give, or allow
She was refused admittance. He refused treatment.
Reject
(transitive) To refuse to accept.
She even rejected my improved offer.
Refuse
To indicate unwillingness (to do something)
Refused to leave.
Reject
(basketball) To block a shot, especially if it sends the ball off the court.
Refuse
To decline to jump (an obstacle). Used of a horse.
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Reject
To refuse a romantic advance.
I've been rejected three times this week.
Refuse
To decline to do, accept, give, or allow something.
Reject
Something that is rejected.
Refuse
Items or material discarded or rejected as useless or worthless; trash or rubbish.
Reject
An unpopular person.
Refuse
Discarded, rejected.
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Reject
(colloquial) A rejected defective product in a production line.
Refuse
Collectively, items or material that have been discarded; rubbish, garbage.
Reject
(aviation) A rejected takeoff.
Refuse
(obsolete) refusal
Reject
To cast from one; to throw away; to discard.
Therefore all this exercise of hunting . . . the Utopians have rejected to their butchers.
Reject me not from among thy children.
Refuse
(transitive) To decline (a request or demand).
My request for a pay rise was refused.
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Reject
To refuse to receive or to acknowledge; to decline haughtily or harshly; to repudiate.
That golden scepter which thou didst reject.
Because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me.
Refuse
(intransitive) To decline a request or demand, forbear; to withhold permission.
I refuse to listen to this nonsense any more.
I asked the star if I could have her autograph, but she refused.
Reject
To refuse to grant; as, to reject a prayer or request.
Refuse
(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.
To refuse the right wing while the left wing attacks
Reject
The person or thing rejected or set aside as inferior in quality
Refuse
To disown.
Reject
Refuse to accept or acknowledge;
I reject the idea of starting a war
The journal rejected the student's paper
Refuse
To melt again.
Reject
Refuse to accept;
He refused my offer of hospitality
Refuse
To deny, as a request, demand, invitation, or command; to decline to do or grant.
That never yet refused your hest.
Reject
Deem wrong or inappropriate;
I disapprove of her child rearing methods
Refuse
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
Reject with contempt;
She spurned his advances
Refuse
To decline to accept; to reject; to deny the request or petition of; as, to refuse a suitor.
The cunning workman never doth refuseThe meanest tool that he may chance to use.
Reject
Resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ;
His body rejected the liver of the donor
Refuse
To disown.
Reject
Refuse entrance or membership;
They turned away hundreds of fans
Black people were often rejected by country clubs
Refuse
To deny compliance; not to comply.
Too proud to ask, too humble to refuse.
If ye refuse . . . ye shall be devoured with the sword.
Reject
Dismiss from consideration;
John was ruled out as a possible suspect because he had a strong alibi
This possibility can be eliminated from our consideration
Refuse
Refusal.
Refuse
That which is refused or rejected as useless; waste or worthless matter.
Refuse
Refused; rejected; hence; left as unworthy of acceptance; of no value; worthless.
Everything that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.
Refuse
Food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)
Refuse
Show unwillingness towards;
He declined to join the group on a hike
Refuse
Refuse to accept;
He refused my offer of hospitality
Refuse
Elude, especially in a baffling way;
This behavior defies explanation
Refuse
Refuse to let have;
She denies me every pleasure
He denies her her weekly allowance
Refuse
Resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ;
His body rejected the liver of the donor
Refuse
Refuse entrance or membership;
They turned away hundreds of fans
Black people were often rejected by country clubs