Dismiss
[dɪs'mɪs]
Definition
(verb.) bar from attention or consideration; 'She dismissed his advances'.
(verb.) cease to consider; put out of judicial consideration; 'This case is dismissed!'.
(verb.) end one's encounter with somebody by causing or permitting the person to leave; 'I was dismissed after I gave my report'.
(verb.) stop associating with; 'They dropped her after she had a child out of wedlock'.
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Definition
(v. t.) To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away.
(v. t.) To discard; to remove or discharge from office, service, or employment; as, the king dismisses his ministers; the matter dismisses his servant.
(v. t.) To lay aside or reject as unworthy of attentions or regard, as a petition or motion in court.
(n.) Dismission.
Checker: Roberta
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Send away, give leave to go, permit to go.[2]. Discharge, discard, cashier, turn off, turn out, remove from office, turn adrift, send packing, send about one's business.
Checker: Prudence
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Banish, discard, abandon, cashier, send_off, divest, discharge
ANT:Retain, detain, keep, maintain
Typist: Melville
Definition
v.t. to send away: to despatch: to discard: to remove from office or employment: (law) to reject to put out of court to discharge.—ns. Dismiss′al Dismis′sion.—adjs. Dismiss′ive Dismiss′ory.
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Examples
- Yes, but I can't dismiss him in an instant without assigning reasons, my dear Chettam. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Do you mean, Sir Percival, that I am to dismiss the indoor servants under my charge without the usual month's warning? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The wiser course to take was to dismiss the idea of the opium from his mind, by leading him insensibly to think of something else. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Follow me through this passage, then, that I may dismiss thee by the postern. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Dismiss the whole lazy pack of indoor servants to-morrow, except Porcher. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Do not dismiss me so soon, mademoiselle! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The same cause gradually led them to dismiss the unnecessary part of their tenants. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- I replied, Never mind the guard, and they were dismissed and went back to their tents. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Fanny's last meal in her father's house was in character with her first: she was dismissed from it as hospitably as she had been welcomed. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Only two or three evolutions had been gone through when he dismissed the battalion, and, turning to go to his own quarters, dropped dead. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I therefore myself dismissed the contractor and made a new contract with a native, at more than double the original price. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I declare to you, on the faith of a gentleman, that I have long dismissed it from my mind. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- I dismissed the business on the spot, and laid the whole case before him. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Before the next examination he was dismissed. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He assisted her to dismount, and, dismissing her guide, conducted her into the cottage. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- You will see him with the rest of us, in the same manner, and, as much as you can, dismissing the recollection of everything unpleasant. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- She spared me the trouble of considering, by dismissing me. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The king, who had a much better understanding, dismissing his learned men, sent for the farmer, who by good fortune was not yet gone out of town. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- But dismissing all this he went onward home, and came to the front of his house. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Helstone and Sykes began to be extremely jocose and congratulatory with Mr. Moore when he returned to them after dismissing the deputation. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Mr. Bucket, dismissing his sudden anger, checks him. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Directing the pitching of the chair in an affable and easy manner, Mr. Bucket dismisses the Mercuries and locks the door again. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- So full is the daily life of these things, and so much of a necessity have they all become, that their commonplace character dismisses them from conspicuous notice. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The old lady relaxes, consents to the admission of the visitors as a favour, and dismisses Rosa. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Either he is not aware of their existence at all, or he dismisses them as merely negligible--things which are vital to the other person. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It summarizes and dismisses the essential evils of the Great Power system. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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