dismiss

dismiss
verb
1 decide sth is not important
ADVERB
quickly
immediately, out of hand, summarily

He dismissed her suggestion out of hand.

blithely, casually, cavalierly (esp. AmE), easily, lightly, readily, simply

Children's fears should never be dismissed lightly.

contemptuously

She contemptuously dismissed their complaints.

completely, entirely, outright

His plan was dismissed outright by his friends.

routinely

Such reports are routinely dismissed as hysteria.

VERB + DISMISS
be unable to, cannot
not be possible to

It is no longer possible to dismiss the link between climate change and carbon emissions.

be difficult to, be easy to

It is easy to dismiss him as nothing more than an old fool.

try to
PREPOSITION
as

She dismissed their arguments as irrelevant.

from

She tried to dismiss the idea from her mind.

2 remove sb from a job
ADVERB
fairly
unfairly, wrongfully (esp. BrE)

The court ruled that Ms Hill had been unfairly dismissed.

constructively (BrE)
summarily
PREPOSITION
from

He was summarily dismissed from his job.

Dismiss is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑court, ↑judge, ↑tribunal
Dismiss is used with these nouns as the object: ↑accusation, ↑allegation, ↑appeal, ↑argument, ↑batsman, ↑case, ↑charge, ↑claim, ↑class, ↑complaint, ↑concern, ↑criticism, ↑employee, ↑idea, ↑importance, ↑indictment, ↑juror, ↑meeting, ↑minister, ↑notion, ↑petition, ↑possibility, ↑report, ↑side, ↑speculation, ↑staff, ↑suggestion, ↑suit, ↑view, ↑worker, ↑worry

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