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Dismiss   /dɪsmˈɪs/   Listen
Dismiss

verb
(past & past part. dismissed; pres. part. dismissing)
1.
Bar from attention or consideration.  Synonyms: brush aside, brush off, discount, disregard, ignore, push aside.
2.
Cease to consider; put out of judicial consideration.  Synonym: throw out.
3.
Stop associating with.  Synonyms: drop, send away, send packing.
4.
Terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position.  Synonyms: can, displace, fire, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, sack, send away, terminate.  "The company terminated 25% of its workers"
5.
End one's encounter with somebody by causing or permitting the person to leave.  Synonym: usher out.
6.
Declare void.  Synonym: dissolve.



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"Dismiss" Quotes from Famous Books



... as they did at first, in that discretion which they do not accuse me of being defective in, I dare say I should have found him out: and then should have been as resolute to dismiss him, as I was to dismiss others, and as I am never to have Mr. Solmes. O that they did but know my heart!—It shall sooner burst, than voluntarily, uncompelled, undriven, dictate a measure that shall cast a slur either upon ...
— Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) • Samuel Richardson

... death of Charles I it is not likely that the Republic would have been represented at the Court of Cromwell, towards whom the feeling of Venice was not cordial, had she not been in great straits for help against the Turk. But in the year 1652 she resolved to dismiss the representative of Charles II, then in Venice; and, at the same time, the Government instructed the ambassador at Paris to send his secretary, Lorenzo Pauluzzi, to London to open negociations with Cromwell. With Pauluzzi the series of dispatches from London recommences; ...
— The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 • Various

... wait till you dismiss him, for I cannot encounter any one at present. Misfortunes crowd upon me; and one act of guilt has drawn the vengeance of Heaven on my head, and will pursue me to the grave. [Exit to an ...
— The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor - Vol I, No. 2, February 1810 • Samuel James Arnold

... were about to set in motion a portion of the army to take military possession of the State, subvert her government, and subject her people to military rule. The presentation of this bill and the argument on the motion of the Attorney-General to dismiss it produced a good deal of hostile comment against the Judges, which did not end when the motion was granted. It was held that the bill called for judgment upon a political question, which the Court ...
— Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California with Other Sketches; To Which Is Added the Story of His Attempted Assassination by a Former Associate on the Supreme Bench of the State • Stephen Field; George C. Gorham

... You will assuredly suffer punishment, some time or other, for this. But answer and dismiss me, whether you are going to repay me my ...
— The Clouds • Aristophanes


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