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dismiss
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[ verb ] bar from attention or consideration
Synonyms Examples "She dismissed his advances" Used in print (Edward Austin Walton, "On Education for the Interior...)We may then dismiss the time difference between these courses and the usual four year course of the interior_design student as not having serious bearing on the subject . (Nathan Rapport, ""I've Been Here before!"...)Most psychiatrists dismiss these instances of that weird feeling as the deja_vu ( already seen ) illusion , just as they dismiss dream previsions as coincidences . Most psychiatrists dismiss these instances of that weird feeling as the deja_vu ( already seen ) illusion , just as they dismiss dream previsions as coincidences . (Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land....)Jubal did not hear of Digby 's disappearance when it was announced , and , when he did , while he had a fleeting suspicion , he dismissed it ; if Mike had had_a_finger_in it , he had gotten_away_with it - and what happened to supreme bishops worried Jubal not at_all as_long_as he was n't bothered . |
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[ verb ] cease to consider; put out of judicial consideration
Synonyms Examples : "This case is dismissed!" Used in print (U.S. Reports. Volume 366. Cases Adjudged in the...)This claim , as submitted to the District_Court and dismissed by it , 126_F._Supp .235 , alleged violation not_only of 7 of the Clayton_Act , but also of 1 and 2 of the Sherman_Act . (U.S. Reports. Volume 364. Cases Adjudged in the...)I am not easily persuaded that a rule accepted by so many people for so many centuries can be so lightly dismissed . Related terms |
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[ verb ] (work) stop associating with
Synonyms Examples "They dropped her after she had a child out of wedlock" Used in print (W. E. B. DuBois, Worlds of Color....)And he dismissed the colored pastor . |
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[ verb ] (work) terminate the employment of
Examples "The boss fired his secretary today" "The company terminated 25% of its workers" Related terms hire remove retire squeeze_out furlough pension_off drive_out dismissal |
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[ verb ] end one's encounter with somebody by causing or permitting the person to leave
Synonyms Examples "I was dismissed after I gave my report" Related terms |
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