Definition of Dismiss

Dismiss

To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away.

To discard; to remove or discharge from office, service, or employment; as, the king dismisses his ministers; the matter dismisses his servant.

To lay aside or reject as unworthy of attentions or regard, as a petition or motion in court.

Dismission.

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Dismiss Quotations

Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
Rabindranath Tagore

Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.
Walt Whitman

I think all women go through periods where we hate this about ourselves, we don't like that. It's great to get to a place where you dismiss anything you're worried about. I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive.
Angelina Jolie

Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else.
Audre Lorde

If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I'd rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it.
Stephen Sondheim

Not to dismiss Gershwin, but Gershwin is the chip; Ellington was the block.
Joni Mitchell

The lower caste people were killed as part of a conspiracy to dismiss my party's government.
Lalu Prasad Yadav

It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last.
Charles Sanders Peirce

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
Walter Savage Landor

It didn't matter what we did or where we did it as long as we were together. We knew we'd found what most people either pursue in years of futile search or dismiss as a fantasy at the outset: the missing half of ourselves. The real thing.
John Perry Barlow

Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
William Cowper

A collection of strong-minded individuals who have learned how to dismiss mistakes, disappointments and problems in their personal life make up a strong team. If the majority of the team have that then, as a unit, you are almost impossible to beat.
Gary Neville

This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of 'cowards' perpetuating 'senseless acts of violence' is complacent nonsense. People willing to kill thousands of innocents while they kill themselves are not cowards. They are deadly vicious warriors and need to be treated as such.
Charles Krauthammer

Not everything I do is gossip or bedroom. To the contrary, I think that's just an easy label to dismiss me and to dismiss the new medium.
Matt Drudge

I mean, the people who run Guantanamo, the military, pretty much dismiss complaints by the detainees because they say that they're all created as part of a political process to sort of fake complaints and get public support.
Jane Mayer

If we dismiss from our minds the prejudice we may have against the Indians we shall be able to more clearly understand the impulses that govern both races.
Nelson A. Miles

Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.
Dorothy Allison

Knowledge is power. Most of us agree that something has to be done to strengthen Social Security, and I believe it's irresponsible to arbitrarily dismiss any idea, Republican nor Democrat, without giving it a hard look.
Conrad Bums

Great actors try to dismiss all ideas from their conscious mind in order to provide an experience that is real.
Mark Rylance

But to say that Sarah Palin and the tea party movement is responsible for vandalism or threats is just a way to dismiss the American people and, and their dissatisfaction with this health care bill.
Laura Ingraham

I don't think it works to just be mad at them - Maxine Waters out ranting and kicking down the doors. It would be so easy to dismiss you and marginalize you.
Maxine Waters

Let's not dismiss or attack individual ideas as being inadequate before we have had a chance to assess their positive effect as part of a whole solution.
John Thune

Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom.
Stokely Carmichael

Lord, dismiss us with Thy blessing, Thanks for mercies past received.
John Sheffield

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Dismiss Translations

dismiss in Afrikaans is wegstuur, ontslaan
dismiss in Danish is afskedige
dismiss in Dutch is ontzetten, royeren, ontslaan
dismiss in German is entlassen
dismiss in Italian is licenziato, licenziare, esonerare
dismiss in Latin is licentio, dimitto
dismiss in Norwegian is sende bort, avskjedige
dismiss in Portuguese is demita
dismiss in Spanish is quitarse, despedir
dismiss in Swedish is avskeda, entlediga, avvisa

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