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rejecting

rejecting is the present participle and gerund of reject.

Meaning of reject

Verb

reject (third-person singular simple present rejects, present participle rejecting, simple past and past participle rejected)

  1. (transitive) To refuse to accept; to forswear.
    • She even rejected my improved offer.
  2. To block a shot, especially if it sends the ball off the court.
  3. (transitive) To refuse a romantic advance.
    • I've been rejected three times this week.

See all 7 meanings of reject

Noun

rejecting (countable and uncountable, plural rejectings)

  1. An act of rejection.
    • […] selectings and rejectings of a few founders.1914, The New Age, page 280

Forms of rejecting

pluralrejectings

Words formed from rejecting

Questions about rejecting

What does rejecting mean?
Rejecting means an act of rejection.
What is rejecting the present participle and gerund of?
Rejecting is the present participle and gerund of reject.
What part of speech is rejecting?
Rejecting is a noun.
What is the plural of rejecting?
The plural of rejecting is rejectings.

Words near rejecting in the dictionary

  1. rejectest
  2. rejecteth
  3. rejectful
  4. rejectfully
  5. rejectible
  6. rejecting
  7. rejectingly
  8. rejectings
  9. rejection
  10. rejection nuclei
  11. rejection nucleus

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rejecting (page history and authors); reject (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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