dismiss
verb
[ dɪsˈmɪs ]
• order or allow to leave; send away.
• "she dismissed the taxi at the corner of the road"
• treat as unworthy of serious consideration.
• "it would be easy to dismiss him as all brawn and no brain"
Similar:
banish,
put away,
set aside,
lay aside,
abandon,
have done with,
drop,
disregard,
brush off,
shrug off,
forget,
think no more of,
pay no heed to,
put out of one's mind,
reject,
deny,
repudiate,
spurn,
scoff at,
sneer at,
pooh-pooh,
Origin:
late Middle English: from medieval Latin dismiss-, variant of Latin dimiss- ‘sent away’, from the verb dimittere .
