dismiss

Definitions


[dɪsˈmɪs], (Verb)

Definitions:
- order or allow to leave; send away
(e.g: she dismissed the taxi at the corner of the road)

- treat as unworthy of serious consideration
(e.g: it would be easy to dismiss him as all brawn and no brain)


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English: from medieval Latin dismiss-, variant of Latin dimiss- ‘sent away’, from the verb dimittere




definition by Oxford Dictionaries