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say it: di-SMIS
dismiss is a verb meaning "bar from attention or consideration". It is pronounced /dɪˈsmɪs/ — di-SMIS. It carries 6 recorded senses.
bar from attention or consideration
“She dismissed his advances”
stop associating with
“They dropped her after she had a child out of wedlock”
terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
“The boss fired his secretary today”
“The company terminated 25% of its workers”
end one's encounter with somebody by causing or permitting the person to leave
“I was dismissed after I gave my report”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for dismiss come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.