及物动词
1. 不考虑;不理会
If you dismiss something, you decide or say that it is not important enough for you to think about or consider.
2. (从头脑中)去除;不再考虑;抛弃
If you dismiss something from your mind, you stop thinking about it.
3. 解雇;免…的职;开除
When an employer dismisses an employee, the employer tells the employee that they are no longer needed to do the job that they have been doing.
4. 让…离去;把…打发走;解散;遣散
If you are dismissed by someone in authority, they tell you that you can go away from them.
5. (法官)驳回,不予受理
When a judge dismisses a case against someone, he or she formally states that there is no need for a trial, usually because there is not enough evidence for the case to continue.
1. declare void
e.g. The President dissolved the parliament and called for new elections
Synonym: dissolve
2. bar from attention or consideration
e.g. She dismissed his advances
Synonym: disregardbrush asidebrush offdiscountpush asideignore
3. cease to consider
put out of judicial consideration
e.g. This case is dismissed!
Synonym: throw out
4. end one's encounter with somebody by causing or permitting the person to leave
e.g. I was dismissed after I gave my report
Synonym: usher out
5. terminate the employment of
discharge from an office or position
e.g. The boss fired his secretary today
The company terminated 25% of its workers
Synonym: displacefiregive noticecangive the axesend awaysackforce outgive the sackterminate
6. stop associating with
e.g. They dropped her after she had a child out of wedlock
Synonym: send packingsend awaydrop