Word Meanings - DISMISS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away. He dismissed the assembly. Acts xix. 41. Dismiss their cares when they dismiss their flock. Cowper. Though he soon dismissed himself from state affairs. Dryden.
Additional info about word: DISMISS
1. To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away. He dismissed the assembly. Acts xix. 41. Dismiss their cares when they dismiss their flock. Cowper. Though he soon dismissed himself from state affairs. Dryden. 2. To discard; to remove or discharge from office, service, or employment; as, the king dismisses his ministers; the matter dismisses his servant. 3. To lay aside or reject as unworthy of attentions or regard, as a petition or motion in court.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DISMISS)
- Acquit
- Discharge
- exonerate
- absolve
- exculpate
- release
- dismiss
- liberate
- pardon
- Liberate
- empty
- acquit
- free
- execute
- perform
- send away
- Dispel
- Disperse
- scatter
- dissipate
- drive away
- Shelve
- Dismiss
- discard
- swamp
- stifle
- shift
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DISMISS)
Related words: (words related to DISMISS)
- PITCHSTONE
An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch. - ACQUIT
Acquitted; set free; rid of. Shak. - DISMISSIVE
Giving dismission. - PARDON
A release, by a sovereign, or officer having jurisdiction, from the penalties of an offense, being distinguished from amenesty, which is a general obliteration and canceling of a particular line of past offenses. Syn. -- Forgiveness; remission. - CONFINER
One who, or that which, limits or restrains. - STIFLED
Stifling. The close and stifled study. Hawthorne. - PITCHERFUL
The quantity a pitcher will hold. - RELEASE
To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back. - PITCHINESS
Blackness, as of pitch; darkness. - DISMISSAL
Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley. - PITCHFORK
A fork, or farming utensil, used in pitching hay, sheaves of grain, or the like. - PLACEMENT
1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place. - PLACENTARY
Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification. - PLACE-KICK
To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n. - DRIVEL
To be weak or foolish; to dote; as, a driveling hero; driveling love. Shak. Dryden. (more info) 1. To slaver; to let spittle drop or flow from the mouth, like a child, idiot, or dotard. 2. Etym: - DRIVE
To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel. Tomlinson. 7. To pass away; -- said of time. Chaucer. Note: Drive, in all its senses, implies forcible or violent action. It is the reverse of to lead. To drive a body is to move it by - PLANTIGRADA
A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species. - PLANTULE
The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination. - FASTENER
One who, or that which, makes fast or firm. - PLANTIGRADE
Walking on the sole of the foot; pertaining to the plantigrades. Having the foot so formed that the heel touches the ground when the leg is upright. - DISPLANTATION
The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh. - SUPPLANT
heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, 1. To trip up. "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the - BESCATTER
1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser. - REPLACEMENT
The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing. - REINSERT
To insert again. - AUCTION PITCH
A game of cards in which the players bid for the privilege of determining or "pitching" the trump suit. R. F. Foster.