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Dismiss

verb

(past & past part. dismissed; pres. part. dismissing)

Bar from attention or consideration. Synonyms: brush aside, brush off, discount, disregard, ignore, push aside.

Cease to consider; put out of judicial consideration. Synonym: throw out.

Stop associating with. Synonyms: drop, send away, send packing.

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"

End one's encounter with somebody by causing or permitting the person to leave. Synonym: usher out.

Declare void. Synonym: dissolve.

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... gesture. "No, no; don't dismiss him on my account. But that a child should visit you is rather remarkable. I should think ...

— The Awakening of Helena Richie • Margaret Deland

... not dismiss this branch of the subject without saying that considerations are frequently adduced by eminent authorities which tend to impair our confidence in almost any conclusion as to the limits of the stellar system. The main argument is based on the possibility ...

— Side-lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science • Simon Newcomb

... human beings nor game on the vast prairie. He had hoped that by some chance he might meet with his comrades, but there was no sign of them, and he fell back on his belief that their skill and great courage had saved them. Seeking to dismiss them from his thoughts for the time in order that he might concentrate all his energies on San Antonio, he rode on. The horse had recovered completely from his great efforts of the preceding night, and once more that magnificent piece of machinery worked without a jar. Old Jack moved over the ...

— The Texan Scouts - A Story of the Alamo and Goliad • Joseph A. Altsheler

... In spite of himself, Calhoun could not help thinking of Lexington and the farmer minute men who met Pitcairn and his red-coats on that April morning in 1775. Were not these men of Corydon as brave? Did they not deserve a monument as much? He tried to dismiss the thought as unworthy, but it stayed with him ...

— Raiding with Morgan • Byron A. Dunn

... Montgomery Martin himself would suggest a communication by canals from the Atlantic to the Pacific, as well might he recommend a man to travel by a slow heavy coach when a light quick one could be procured; and thus we dismiss the subject ...

— A Letter from Major Robert Carmichael-Smyth to His Friend, the Author of 'The Clockmaker' • Robert Carmichael-Smyth

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