your talking to your friend and he says "hey you should talk to that girl you like" you walk over to her and say hey babe and she goes FUCK NO that means you got rejected
People knew what the warnings were about, they had paid attention to them, they had heard them, and they took them seriously, but they still rejected them. The warnings were rejected, not ignored.
"an application to hold a pop concert at the club was rejected"
after his sister was born"
""union negotiators rejected a 1.5 percent pay increase"
refuse to agree to (a request).