Dismiss: Definition and part of speech

Dismiss

  1. n. Dismission.
  2. v. t. To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away.
  3. v. t. To discard; to remove or discharge from office, service, or employment; as, the king dismisses his ministers; the matter dismisses his servant.
  4. v. t. To lay aside or reject as unworthy of attentions or regard, as a petition or motion in court.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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