rejected
- 1Simple past and past participle of reject.
The committee rejected the proposal after a long debate.
His body rejected the donated kidney within days of the surgery.
Note
A regular verb, so one -ed spelling does both jobs: the committee rejected it, the committee has rejected it. Because reject takes an object, the participle settles naturally into the passive: the proposal was rejected, his advance was rejected, and on the basketball court a blocked shot is rejected too, especially one sent off the court. To tell the two roles apart, look at the auxiliary. The past tense has none, and the participle follows have or be.
rejected is a form of reject
reject, verb: To refuse to accept something that is offered, proposed, or claimed. Full entry
- Spelling
- reject → rejected: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.
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