dismiss
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈmɪs/
ipa: /dɪzˈmɪs/
rhymes: -ɪs
Forms: form: dismisses
form: dismissing
form: dismissed
form: dismissed
Etymology: Middle English, from Latin dimissus (“sent away, dismissed, banished”), perfect passive participle of dīmittō (“send away, dismiss”), from dis- + mittere (“to send”).
Senses: examples: text: The company dismissed me after less than a year.
glosses: To discharge; to end the employment or service of.
examples: text: The soldiers were dismissed after the parade.
glosses: To order to leave.
examples: text: He dismissed all thoughts of acting again.
glosses: To dispel; to rid one’s mind of.
examples: text: The court dismissed the case.
text: “He was here,” observed Drina composedly, “and father was angry with him.” ¶ “What?” exclaimed Eileen. “When?” ¶ “This morning, before father went downtown.” ¶ Both Selwyn and Lansing cut in coolly, dismissing the matter with a careless word or two; and coffee was served—cambric tea in Drina’s case.
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IV, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
text: The late Professor Pat White was an outspoken critic. In his 1986 book Forgotten Railways, he dismissed as smoke and mirrors the oft-used argument that 33% of rail routes carried only 1% of the traffic, as it ignores the fact that a third of the national road network also only carried 2% of cars and lorries. But unlike rail, road got away with it because no mention was made of how much it cost the taxpayer to keep them usable.
ref: 2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 53:
glosses: To reject; to refuse to accept.
examples: text: By telling the victim to "get over it", the listener dismissed the victim's feelings.
text: As for the IRP, Secretary of State Grant Shapps continues to peddle snake oil, smoke and mirrors. His reaction to near-universal IRP condemnation from politicians, local and national media, and all but a few rail specialists was to dismiss the lot of us (in the condescending and patronising tone we have now come to expect) as "critics and naysayers".
ref: 2022 January 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, in RAIL, number 948, page 3:
glosses: To invalidate; to treat as unworthy of serious consideration.
examples: text: She dismissed him with a wave of the hand.
glosses: To send or put away, to discard with disregard, contempt or disdain. (sometimes followed by as).
examples: text: He was dismissed for 99 runs.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To get a batsman out.
examples: text: Kalinic later saw red for a rash tackle on Paul Scharner before Gabriel Tamas was dismissed for bringing down Diouf.
ref: 2010 December 28, Kevin Darlin, “West Brom 1-3 Blackburn”, in BBC:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: To give someone a red card; to send off.
Synonyms: sense: to end the employment or service of
word: lay off
Coordinate terms: brush off
send someone packing
send someone to the showers
Derived terms: dismissable
dismissably
dismissee
dismisser
dismissible
redismiss
Related terms: dismissal
dismissive
dismission