SELECTIONS Antonyms

• the act of refusing

• a message refusing to accept something that is offered

• any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases

• (genetics) the loss or absence of one or more nucleotides from a chromosome

• the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage

• the act of deleting something written or printed

• the act of refusing to comply (as with a request)

• the act of asserting that something alleged is not true

• (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that denies painful thoughts

• renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests of others

• a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him

• anything that is cast aside or discarded

• (cards) the act of throwing out a useless card or of failing to follow suit

• getting rid of something that is regarded as useless or undesirable

• throw or cast away

• a judgment disposing of the matter without a trial

• official notice that you have been fired from your job

• permission to go; the sending away of someone

• the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)

• the act of removing or getting rid of something

• the bodily process of discharging waste matter

• analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities followed by the systematic rejection of unacceptable alternatives

• the act of removing an unknown mathematical quantity by combining equations

• the murder of a competitor

• the state of being excluded

• the state of being excommunicated

• a deliberate act of omission

• the act of forcing out someone or something

• the act of rejecting something

• the state of being rejected

• (medicine) an immunological response that refuses to accept substances or organisms that are recognized as foreign

• the speech act of rejecting

• the act of removing

• dismissal from office