dismiss
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
bar from attention or consideration
She dismissed his advances
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- brush-off derivation
- disregard derivation
- disregard derivation
- dismissive derivation
Sense 2 verb
cease to consider; put out of judicial consideration
This case is dismissed!
Related & opposite
- dismissal derivation
Sense 3 verb
stop associating with
They dropped her after she had a child out of wedlock
Types & categories
- give the axe hypernym
Related & opposite
- drop verb group
Sense 4 verb
terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
The boss fired his secretary today
Types & categories
- remove hypernym
- retire hyponym
- pension off hyponym
- clean out hyponym
- furlough hyponym
- squeeze out hyponym
- send away hyponym
Related & opposite
- hire antonym
- dismission derivation
- dismissible derivation
Sense 5 verb
end one's encounter with somebody by causing or permitting the person to leave
I was dismissed after I gave my report
Types & categories
- say farewell hypernym
Related & opposite
- dismissal derivation
- dismissive derivation
Sense 6 verb
declare void
The President dissolved the parliament and called for new elections
Types & categories
- change hypernym
Related & opposite
- dissolve verb group
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | brush-off |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | disregard |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | disregard |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | dismissive |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | reject |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | slight |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | discredit |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | shrug off |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | pass off |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | flout |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | turn a blind eye |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | laugh off |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | disoblige |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | dismissal |
| 3 | verb group | Related & opposite | drop |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | give the axe |
| 4 | antonym | Related & opposite | hire |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | dismission |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | dismissible |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | remove |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | retire |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | pension off |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | clean out |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | furlough |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | squeeze out |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | send away |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | dismissal |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | dismissive |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | say farewell |
| 6 | verb group | Related & opposite | dissolve |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | change |