rejecting
- 1Present participle and gerund of reject.
The committee kept rejecting proposals that lacked a clear budget.
Rejecting the settlement, the plaintiff decided to take the case to trial.
Note
One spelling doing two jobs. As a participle it builds progressive tenses and opening clauses. As a gerund it behaves like a noun yet keeps its verb's object, so a phrase like rejecting the offer can serve as a sentence's subject. It grows only from the verb (turning down an idea, a suitor, or a shot on the court), never from the noun reject, meaning a defective item or an unpopular person.
Rejecting the offer turned out to be her best decision.
He regretted rejecting her invitation so quickly.
rejecting is a form of reject
reject, verb: To refuse to accept something that is offered, proposed, or claimed. Full entry
- Spelling
- reject → rejecting: add -ing
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