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[ verb ] refuse to acknowledge
Examples "She cut him dead at the meeting" Used in print (Douglas Ashford, "Elections in Morocco: Progress...)The P.D.I. and later the Popular_Movement protected the Istiqlal 's `` privileged position '' until the fall of Balafrej , and_then the Istiqlal used the same argument , which it had previously ignored , against the pro U.N.F.P. tendencies of the Ibrahim government . (Jim Berry Pearson, The Maxwell Land Grant....)And the law virtually ignored the situation . (Guy Bolton, The Olympians....)Alastor was published only to be savagely attacked , contemptuously ignored . (Bruce Palmer, "My Brother's Keeper", Many Are...)Though Watson carefully ignored the man , he could not deny his presence . (Frieda Arkin, "The Light of the Sea," in The...)Abel ignored the half expressed bid for confirmation . |
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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...)The question , however , cannot be ignored for long . (Frank Oppenheimer, "Science and Fear-- A Discussion...)We have ample light when the sun sets ; the temperature of our homes is independent of the seasons ; we fly through the air , although gravity pulls us down ; the range of our voice ignores distance . |
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[ verb ] fail to notice
Used in print (Organic Gardening and Farming,...)That done , her work is accomplished and she ignores the plant . (Frank Getlein and Harold C. Gardiner, S.J., Movies,...)But in_general the European efforts to make an art of the entertainment had ignored the slowly emerging language of the film itself . (Gerald Green, The Heartless Light....)And he ignored him , skirting the parked cars and walking up the path to the Skopas house . |
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[ verb ] give little or no attention to
Synonyms Examples "Disregard the errors" Used in print (Octavia Waldo, A Cup of the Sun....)And once she , too , ignored him . Related terms |
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