Definition of "dismiss" []

• To end the employment or service of; discharge. (verb-transitive)
• To direct or allow to leave: dismissed troops after the inspection; dismissed the student after reprimanding him. (verb-transitive)
• To stop considering; rid one's mind of; dispel: dismissed all thoughts of running for office. (verb-transitive)
• To refuse to accept or recognize; reject: dismissed the claim as highly improbable. (verb-transitive)
• Law To put (a claim or action) out of court without further hearing. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "A government motion to dismiss is still pending before the federal judge in Florida, but he has indicated that he, too, plans to deny it."
• "With my old windows mobile phone, on quite a number of times i managed to tap the options button, and select dismiss from the list without opening my eyes."
• "What I find interesting about this filing in support of the motion to dismiss is that the allegations of "torture" would be completely irrelevant to such a motion."