Synonyms of the word

dismiss

• v. (transitive) To discharge; to end the employment or service of.
• v. (transitive) To order to leave.
• v. (transitive) To dispel; to rid one's mind of.
• v. (transitive) To reject; to refuse to accept.
• v. To send or put away.
• v. (transitive, cricket) To get a batsman out.
• v. (transitive, soccer) To give someone a red card; to send off.

alter

• v. (transitive) To change the form or structure of.
• v. (intransitive) To become different.
• v. (transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.
• v. (transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.

can

• v. (modal auxiliary verb, defective) To know how to; to be able to.
• v. (modal auxiliary verb, defective, informal) May; to be permitted or enabled to.
• v. (modal auxiliary verb, defective) To be possible, usually with be.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To know.
• n. A more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids, usually of steel or aluminium.
• n. A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can).
• n. A tin-plate canister, often cylindrical, for preserved foods such as fruit, meat, or fish.
• n. (archaic) A chamber pot, now (US, slang) a toilet.
• n. (US, slang) A place with a toilet: a lavatory.
• n. (US, slang) Buttocks.
• n. (slang) Jail or prison.
• n. (slang) Headphones.
• n. (obsolete) A drinking cup.
• n. (nautical) A cube-shaped buoy or marker used to denote a port-side lateral mark.
• v. To preserve, by heating and sealing in a can or jar.
• v. to discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.).
• v. To shut up.
• v. (US, euphemistic) To fire or dismiss an employee.

change

• v. (intransitive) To become something different.
• v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
• v. (transitive) To replace.
• v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
• v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
• v. (archaic) To exchange.
• v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
• n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
• n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
• n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
• n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
• n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
• n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
• n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
• n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
• n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
• n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

discount

• v. To deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like.
• v. To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest.
• v. To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).
• v. To leave out of account; to take no notice of.
• v. To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount.
• n. A reduction in price.
• n. A deduction made for interest, in advancing money upon, or purchasing, a bill or note not due; payment…
• n. The rate of interest charged in discounting.
• adj. (of a store) Specializing in selling goods at reduced prices.

dismiss

• v. (transitive) To discharge; to end the employment or service of.
• v. (transitive) To order to leave.
• v. (transitive) To dispel; to rid one's mind of.
• v. (transitive) To reject; to refuse to accept.
• v. To send or put away.
• v. (transitive, cricket) To get a batsman out.
• v. (transitive, soccer) To give someone a red card; to send off.

disregard

• n. The act or state of deliberately not paying attention or caring about; misregard.
• v. To ignore; misregard.

dissolve

• v. (transitive) To terminate a union of multiple members actively, as by disbanding.
• v. (transitive) To destroy, make disappear.
• v. (transitive) To liquify, melt into a fluid.
• v. (intransitive) To be melted, changed into a fluid.
• v. (chemistry, transitive) To disintegrate chemically into a solution by immersion into a liquid or gas.
• v. (chemistry, intransitive) To be disintegrated by such immersion.
• v. (transitive) To disperse, drive apart a group of persons.
• v. (transitive) To break the continuity of; to disconnect; to loosen; to undo; to separate.
• v. (law, transitive) To annul; to rescind; to discharge or release.
• v. (cinematography, intransitive) To shift from one shot to another by having the former fade out as the…
• v. (intransitive) To resolve itself as by dissolution.
• v. (obsolete) To solve; to clear up; to resolve.
• v. To relax by pleasure; to make powerless.
• n. (cinematography) A film punctuation in which there is a gradual transition from one scene to the next.

drop

• n. A small mass of liquid just large enough to hold its own weight via surface tension, usually one that…
• n. The space or distance below a cliff or other high position into which someone or something could fall.
• n. A fall, descent; an act of dropping.
• n. A place where items or supplies may be left for others to collect, sometimes associated with criminal…
• n. An instance of dropping supplies or making a delivery, sometimes associated with delivery of supplies…
• n. (chiefly Britain) A small amount of an alcoholic beverage.
• n. (chieflt, Britain, when used with the definite article (the drop) alcoholic spirits in general.
• n. (Ireland, informal) A single measure of whisky.
• n. A small, round, sweet piece of hard candy, e.g. a lemon drop; a lozenge.
• n. (American football) A dropped pass.
• n. (American football) Short for drop-back or drop back.
• n. (Rugby football) A drop-kick.
• n. In a woman, the difference between bust circumference and hip circumference; in a man, the difference…
• n. (sports, usually with definite article "the") relegation from one division to a lower one.
• n. (video games, online gaming) Any item dropped by defeated enemies.
• n. (music) A point in a song, usually electronic-styled music such as dubstep, house, trance or trap, where…
• n. (US, banking, dated) An unsolicited credit card issue.
• n. The vertical length of a hanging curtain.
• n. That which resembles or hangs like a liquid drop: a hanging diamond ornament, an earring, a glass pendant…
• n. (architecture) A gutta.
• n. A mechanism for lowering something, such as: a trapdoor; a machine for lowering heavy weights onto a ship's…
• n. (slang) (With definite article) A gallows; a sentence of hanging.
• n. A drop press or drop hammer.
• n. (engineering) The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger.
• n. (nautical) The depth of a square sail; generally applied to the courses only.
• v. (intransitive) To fall in droplets (of a liquid).
• v. (transitive) To drip (a liquid).
• v. (intransitive) Generally, to fall (straight down).
• v. (transitive, ergative) To let fall; to allow to fall (either by releasing hold of, or losing one's grip…
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops.
• v. (intransitive) To sink quickly to the ground.
• v. (intransitive) To fall dead, or to fall in death.
• v. (intransitive) To come to an end (by not being kept up); to stop.
• v. (transitive) To mention casually or incidentally, usually in conversation.
• v. (transitive, slang) To part with or spend (money).
• v. (transitive) To cease concerning oneself over; to have nothing more to do with (a subject, discussion…
• v. (intransitive) To lessen, decrease, or diminish in value, condition, degree, etc.
• v. (transitive) To let (a letter etc.) fall into a postbox; to send (a letter or message).
• v. (transitive) To make (someone or something) fall to the ground from a blow, gunshot etc.; to bring down,…
• v. (transitive, linguistics) To fail to write, or (especially) to pronounce (a syllable, letter etc.).
• v. (cricket, of a fielder) To fail to make a catch from a batted ball that would have lead to the batsman…
• v. (transitive, slang) To swallow (a drug), particularly LSD.
• v. (transitive) To dispose (of); get rid of; to remove; to lose.
• v. (transitive) To eject; to dismiss; to cease to include, as if on a list.
• v. (Rugby football) To score [a goal] by means of a drop-kick.
• v. (transitive, slang) To impart.
• v. (transitive, music, colloquial) To release to the public.
• v. (transitive, music) To play a portion of music in the manner of a disc jockey.
• v. (intransitive, music, colloquial) To enter public distribution.
• v. (transitive, music) To tune (a guitar string, etc.) to a lower note.
• v. (transitive) To cancel or end a scheduled event, project or course.
• v. (transitive, fast food) To cook, especially by deep-frying or grilling.
• v. (intransitive, of a voice) To lower in timbre, often relating to puberty.
• v. (intransitive, of a sound or song) To lower in pitch, tempo, key, or other quality.
• v. (intransitive, of people) To visit informally; used with in or by.
• v. To give birth to.
• v. To cover with drops; to variegate; to bedrop.
• v. (slang, of the testicles) To hang lower and begin producing sperm due to puberty.

fire

• n. (uncountable) A (usually self-sustaining) chemical reaction involving the bonding of oxygen with carbon…
• n. (countable) An instance of this chemical reaction, especially when intentionally created and maintained…
• n. (countable) The occurrence, often accidental, of fire in a certain place, causing damage and danger.
• n. (uncountable, alchemy, philosophy) The aforementioned chemical reaction of burning, considered a one of…
• n. (countable, Britain) A heater or stove used in place of a real fire (such as an electric fire).
• n. (countable) The elements necessary to start a fire.
• n. (uncountable) The bullets or other projectiles fired from a gun.
• n. Strength of passion, whether love or hate.
• n. Liveliness of imagination or fancy; intellectual and moral enthusiasm.
• n. Splendour; brilliancy; lustre; hence, a star.
• n. (countable) A button (on a joypad, joystick or similar device) usually used to make a video game character…
• v. (transitive) To set (something) on fire.
• v. (transitive) To heat without setting on fire, as ceramic, metal objects, etc.
• v. (transitive) To drive away by setting a fire.
• v. (transitive) To terminate the employment contract of (an employee), especially for cause (such as misconduct…
• v. (transitive) To shoot (a device that launches a projectile or a pulse or stream of something).
• v. (intransitive) To shoot a gun, a cannon or a similar weapon.
• v. (transitive, sports) To shoot; to attempt to score a goal.
• v. (intransitive, physiology) To cause an action potential in a cell.
• v. (transitive) To forcibly direct (something).
• v. (intransitive, computer sciences, software engineering) To initiate an event (by means of an event handler).
• v. To inflame; to irritate, as the passions.
• v. To animate; to give life or spirit to.
• v. To feed or serve the fire of.
• v. To light up as if by fire; to illuminate.
• v. (farriery) To cauterize.
• v. (intransitive, dated) To catch fire; to be kindled.
• v. (intransitive, dated) To be irritated or inflamed with passion.
• adj. (slang) Amazing.
• interj. A cry of distress indicating that something is on fire.
• interj. A signal to shoot.

ignore

• v. To deliberately pay no attention to.
• v. To pretend to not notice someone or something.
• v. (obsolete) Fail to notice.

modify

• v. (transitive) To make partial changes to.
• v. (intransitive) To be or become modified.

reject

• v. (transitive) To refuse to accept.
• v. (basketball) To block a shot, especially if it sends the ball off the court.
• n. Something that is rejected.
• n. (derogatory slang) An unpopular person.

remove

• v. (transitive) To move something from one place to another, especially to take away.
• v. (transitive) To murder.
• v. (cricket, transitive) To dismiss a batsman.
• v. (transitive) To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).
• v. (intransitive, now rare) To depart, leave.
• v. (intransitive) To change one's residence; to move.
• v. To dismiss or discharge from office.
• n. The act of removing something.
• n. (archaic) Removing a dish at a meal in order to replace it with the next course, a dish thus replaced,…
• n. (Britain) (at some public schools) A division of the school, especially the form prior to last.
• n. A step or gradation (as in the phrase "at one remove").
• n. Distance in time or space; interval.
• n. (dated) The transfer of one's home or business to another place; a move.
• n. The act of resetting a horse's shoe.

sack

• n. A bag; especially a large bag of strong, coarse material for storage and handling of various commodities,…
• n. The amount a sack holds; also, an archaic or historical measure of varying capacity, depending on commodity…
• n. (uncountable) The plunder and pillaging of a captured town or city.
• n. (uncountable) Loot or booty obtained by pillage.
• n. (American football) A successful tackle of the quarterback. See verb sense⁴ below.
• n. (baseball) One of the square bases anchored at first base, second base, or third base.
• n. (informal) Dismissal from employment, or discharge from a position, usually as give (someone) the sack…
• n. (colloquial, US) Bed; usually as hit the sack or in the sack. See also sack out.
• n. (dated) (also sacque) A kind of loose-fitting gown or dress with sleeves which hangs from the shoulders,…
• n. (dated) A sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam.
• n. (vulgar, slang) The scrotum.
• v. To put in a sack or sacks.
• v. To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders.
• v. To plunder or pillage, especially after capture; to obtain spoils of war from.
• v. (American football) To tackle, usually to tackle the offensive quarterback behind the line of scrimmage…
• v. (informal) To discharge from a job or position; to fire.
• v. (colloquial) In the phrase sack out, to fall asleep. See also hit the sack.
• n. (dated) A variety of light-colored dry wine from Spain or the Canary Islands; also, any strong white wine…
• v. Alternative spelling of sac.
• n. Alternative spelling of sac.

terminate

• v. (transitive or intransitive, formal) To end, especially in an incomplete state.
• v. (transitive, euphemistic) To kill.
• v. (transitive, euphemistic) To end the employment contract of an employee; to fire, lay off.
• adj. Terminated; limited; bounded; ended.
• adj. Having a definite and clear limit or boundary; having a determinate size, shape or magnitude.
• adj. (mathematics) Expressible in a finite number of terms; (of a decimal) not recurring or infinite.