verb

definition

To discharge; to end the employment or service of.

example

The company dismissed me after less than a year.

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To order to leave.

example

The soldiers were dismissed after the parade.

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To dispel; to rid one’s mind of.

example

He dismissed all thoughts of acting again.

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To reject; to refuse to accept.

example

The court dismissed the case.

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To send or put away, to discard with disregard, contempt or disdain. (sometimes followed by as).

example

She dismissed him with a wave of the hand.

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To get a batsman out.

example

He was dismissed for 99 runs.

definition

To give someone a red card; to send off.

Examples of dismiss in a Sentence

She couldn't dismiss the sight of his darkened eye or bloodied lip.

He wanted desperately to dismiss Cynthia from consideration.

Her husband buys and can dismiss her at will.

Spener refused to resign his post, and the Saxon government hesitated to dismiss him.

This seems too simple, and I cannot yet dismiss the caution my great-uncle - -and his son, my cousin - -took when discussing the creature.

I'll let her think that's possible while I confirm or dismiss what she tells me.

Essex was thus thrown upon his own resources, and his anger against the queen being roused afresh by the refusal to renew his monopoly of sweet wines, he formed the desperate project of seizing her person and compelling her to dismiss from her council his enemies Raleigh, Cobham, and Cecil.

She started to the table then stopped, unable to dismiss the feeling of the man's arms around her or what she'd felt when they touched.

His former vows were simple and the Society was at liberty to dismiss him for any canonical reason.

Popular pressure forced him to bring the murderers to justice, to punish them and dismiss them his service.

But this idea was quickly dispelled; on the 22nd he expressed his surprise that anybody should have thought he intended to approve of Mr Chamberlain's plan; he was not prepared to dismiss in advance a proposal for the consolidation of the empire made by the responsible government, but he believed that the objections to a policy of preference were insurmountable.

He may either dismiss the case at once by an order of non-lieu, or order it to be tried, when the prosecution is undertaken.

The king took courage to dismiss.

It definitely wasn't something she was able to dismiss.

Darnley had taken on him (his one act of kingly power) to dismiss the parliament, but he now found himself the mere tool of his accomplices.

Hajjaj, however, was not the man to allow the formation of a fresh nucleus of sedition, and persuaded the caliph to dismiss Omar in the year 712, and appoint Othman b.

MacMahon, equally unwilling to resign or to provoke civil war, had no choice but to dismiss his advisers and form a moderate republican ministry under the premiership of Dufaure.

In all other respects the council, provided that it kept within the limits of the laws the administration of which was entrusted to it, was to be entirely independent of the Ottoman government, free to appoint and dismiss its own officials from highest to lowest, and to carry on its administration on such lines as it thought best.

The quarrel began in 1871 when the Prussian government supported some teachers in state-aided Catholic schools whom the bishops wished to dismiss on account of their anti-infallibilist opinions.

Dean managed to hand her his business card but she seemed to dismiss it, with eyes only for the charming Fred O'Connor.

Letters and writings of his own (1527-1528) proved him to hold strongly anti-Lutheran heresies, and both Catholics and Lutherans urged the duke of Liegnitz to dismiss him.

On the whole, the transaction, though it is too well vouched for to allow us to dismiss it as entirely fabulous, cannot take its place among the undoubted facts of history.

My heart is empty as I have no doubt he'll dismiss me if his mother does, in fact, pass on to her final reward.

Three influential people, among them the rector of Bala, agitated some of the parishioners against him, and persuaded his rector to dismiss him.

In 1387 the duke of Gloucester, uncle of Richard II., assembled in Hornsey Park the forces by the display of which he compelled the king to dismiss his minister de la Pole, earl of Suffolk; and in 1483 the park was the scene of the ceremonious reception of Edward V., under the charge of Richard, duke of Gloucester, by Edmund Shaw, lord mayor of London.

Now that the queen was all-powerful, it was expected she would at once dismiss Mazarin and summon her own friends to power.

The revolution of that year compelled George's brother and successor, William, to dismiss Count Munster, who had been the actual ruler of the country, and to name his own brother, Adolphus Frederick, duke of Cambridge, a viceroy of Hanover; one of the viceroy's earliest duties being to appoint a commission to draw up a new constitution.

In great alarm Abdalmalik endeavoured to stifle the revolt by offering to dismiss Hajjaj from his post.

It would be rash summarily to dismiss this old tradition of the twenty-one nasks as pure invention.

In the next year he returned in arms, raised Wessex in revolt, and compelled the king to in-law him again, to restore his earldom, and to dismiss with ignominy the Norman favorites who were hunted over seas.

Despite all this the Conquest would not have had its actual results if William, like Canute, had been able to dismiss his conquering army, and to refrain from a general policy Progress tf confiscation.

Both sides promised to lay down their arms, to dismiss their mercenaries, and to acquiesce in the destruction of unlicensed castles, of which it is said, with no very great exaggeration, that there were at the moment over 1000 in the realm.

The barons brought up many armed retainers to the parliament of 1321, and forced the king to dismiss and to condemn them to exile.

As Charles would not dismiss him simply because the Commons were dissatisfied with him as a minister, they fell back on charging him with criminal designs.

The king was compelled to dismiss Johannes Schlayer (1792-1860) and his other ministers, and to call to power men with more liberal ideas, the exponents of the idea of a united Germany.

It would be absurd, however, to dismiss all the legislative work of the Convention as merely partisan or eccentric. Much of it was enlightened and skilful, the product of the best minds in the assembly.

In May 1648 the people of Moscow rose against them, and the young tsar was compelled to dismiss both them and their patron Morozov.

In theory the viceroy, or ban of CroatiaSlavonia is nominated by the crown, and enjoys almost unlimited authority over local affairs; in practice the consent of the crown is purely formal, and the ban is appointed by the Hungarian premier, who can dismiss him at any moment.

We cannot dismiss a priori biblical chronology simply by assuming genealogical gaps.

I dismiss the claimant 's application for declaratory relief declaring that the Adjudicator's decision was null and void.

We can dismiss the former position as moral cowardice, which leaves only the latter as a serious response.

The employer then has the option to dismiss employees w ho were involved.

And such impetuosity was equally evident in the speed with which he proceeded to dismiss Germany's great Chancellor, Bismarck.

Rather, they will dismiss the notion lest they become a laughingstock in the papers.

Ferda (Peter Sullivan) is inclined to dismiss the Plastics as long-haired layabouts who aren't engaged in what matters.

Of course, nowadays we would remember this only to dismiss it - terribly old-fashioned.

Critics, like Shiva, dismiss such claims as nothing more than corporate public relations puffery.

When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.

The proprietor, in obedience to orders from Vienna (this seems the most probable account), took advantage of a dispute about salary to dismiss him.

His excuse s the popes refusal to dismiss his foreign levies (September 7).

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