| 单词 | dismiss |
| 释义 | dismiss (once / 172 pages) v At the end of a lesson period, your teacher says, "class dismissed." This means that you and the rest of the students are free to go. Dismiss means to let go. If a judge dismisses a case, it means he's saying it has no merit, and is throwing it out of court. If you are dismissed from your job, it means you've been fired. And if you've been ignoring your friends' warnings that your boyfriend is cheating, you've been dismissing their concerns. "Don't dismiss me!" is something you say when the person you're talking to is not taking you and your comments seriously. WORD FAMILYdismiss: dismissal, dismissed, dismisses, dismissible, dismissing, dismission, dismissive+/dismissal: dismissals/dismission: dismissions/dismissive: dismissively USAGE EXAMPLESThe Burmese authorities will no doubt dismiss this as a misdemeanour. BBC(Jan 02, 2017) Wexler dismisses the argument used by leagues that since sports gambling is inevitable, they might as well push to regulate it. Seattle Times(Jan 01, 2017) One case with Okarche-area landowners was dismissed for procedural reasons. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) 1v stop associating with Syn|Hyper drop, send away, send packing drop terminate an association with can, displace, fire, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, sack, send away, terminate terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position 2v bar from attention or consideration She dismissed his advances Syn|Hypo|Hyper brush aside, brush off, discount, disregard, ignore, push aside cold-shoulder, slight pay no attention to, disrespect discreditcause to be distrusted or disbelieved shrug offminimize the importance of, brush aside pass offdisregard flout, scofftreat with contemptuous disregard turn a blind eyerefuse to acknowledge laugh away, laugh offdeal with a problem by laughing or pretending to be amused by it disobligeignore someone's wishes reject refuse to accept or acknowledge 3v end one's encounter with somebody by causing or permitting the person to leave I was dismissed after I gave my report Syn|Hyper usher out say farewell say good-bye or bid farewell 4v cease to consider; put out of judicial consideration This case is dismissed! Syn throw out 5v terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper can, displace, fire, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, sack, send away, terminate employ, engage, hire engage or hire for work retire make (someone) retire pension offlet go from employment with an attractive pension clean outforce out furlough, lay offdismiss, usually for economic reasons squeeze outforce out drop, send away, send packingstop associating with superannuateretire and pension (someone) because of age or physical inability downsizedismiss from work remove remove from a position or an office 6v declare void Syn|Hyper dissolve break up, dissolve bring the association of to an end or cause to break up alter, change, modify cause to change; make different; cause a transformation |
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