rigettare

From ri- +‎ gettare (“to throw”).

• IPA^(key): /ri.d͡ʒetˈta.re/
• Rhymes: -are
• Hyphenation: ri‧get‧tà‧re

rigettàre (first-person singular present rigètto, first-person singular past historic rigettài, past participle rigettàto, auxiliary avére or (in the meaning "to resurface, to reappear") èssere)

1. (transitive) to send back or away

   rigettare l'attacco nemico ― to push back the enemy attack

   • 2013, F. Scott Fitzgerald, translated by Ferruccio Russo, Il Grande Gatsby [The Great Gatsby], Edizioni Scientifiche e Artistiche, page 202:

     I nostri occhi si alzarono sui roseti, il prato caldo e le alghe rigettate a riva dalla canicola.

     Our eyes lifted over the rosebeds and the hot lawn and the weedy refuse of the dog days along shore.

     (literally, “Our eyes lifted over the rose gardens, the hot lawn and the seaweed sent back ashore from the dog days.”)

2. (transitive) to throw again or back
3. (transitive) to refute, to reject

   Synonyms: rifiutare, respingere, ributtare, non accogliere

   rigettare un credo ― to refute a creed

   rigettare un ricorso ― to reject an appeal

4. (botany, transitive, intransitive) to germinate [auxiliary avere]

   Synonyms: germogliare, ributtare

5. (intransitive) to resurface, to reappear [auxiliary essere]
6. (transitive, informal) to vomit

   Synonyms: vomitare, rimettere, rovesciare

• rigettarsi

• gratterei, rigetterà