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remove discharge cashier fire sack pooh-pooh boot eject can let bounce send drop cast dissolve shelve disgrace demit laugh kiss terminate expel drum brush Bury downplay catch reject kick out kiss off dismissive bump turn off scout kick downsize pension snub disband pack brush aside amove throw out discard head license axe turn dismissed dismissing release break set tell off throw renounce casting put deselect give someone the elbow bowl shrug rule out
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give someone their cards slam dunk defenestrate sneeze at void hike amand set down kick someone out repeal snap nonsense furlough tell someone where to get off (or where they get off) turn out standoff give someone the boot set aside kick something into touch (or into the long grass) dispense with someone's services dump get out flick exauctorate put down sustain dimit toll lay excuse shrug off dehire put out bag displace retain shoot turf out show someone the door eliminate elbow belittle trash take disship forget stump wave piss off spin something out withdraw get (or give someone) the push (or shove) irremovable disemploy give (someone) the ax turf laugh off brush off separate give (someone) the push take a wicket jeff flunk out dispatch sod strike heart strike someone out (or strike out) spin get (or give someone) the hook give (someone) the sack write off overrule guff drum someone out chuck done with disown waive defrock sendoff give someone (or get) the bum's rush door pooh–pooh axes congee excess scorn throw something out explain make redundant sin-bin catch someone out refire relegate run someone out discourt caught catching run disarm vandalism dismissal banish spinster nonsuit run out contemptuous right-about mis- indoctrinate cricket forum non conveniens archly shrift discount maniac disconcert codswallop illiberal malarkey solicitation abracadabra batty demise demurrer

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Words For "dismiss"

As you've probably noticed, words for "dismiss" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this word similarity engine, the top 5 related words for "dismiss" are: remove, discharge, cashier, fire, and sack. There are 184 other words that are related to or similar to dismiss listed above. Hopefully the generated list of words for "dismiss" above suit your needs. If not, you might want to check out Related Words - another project of mine which uses a different technique (not though that it works best with single words, not phrases).

About Reverse Dictionary

The way Reverse Dictionary works is pretty simple. It simply looks through tonnes of dictionary definitions and grabs the ones that most closely match your search query. For example, if you type something like "longing for a time in the past", then the engine will return "nostalgia". The engine has indexed several million definitions so far, and at this stage it's starting to give consistently good results (though it may return weird results sometimes). It acts a lot like a thesaurus except that it allows you to search with a definition, rather than a single word. So in a sense, this tool is a "search engine for words", or a sentence to word converter.

I made this tool after working on Related Words which is a very similar tool, except it uses a bunch of algorithms and multiple databases to find similar words to a search query. That project is closer to a thesaurus in the sense that it returns synonyms for a word (or short phrase) query, but it also returns many broadly related words that aren't included in thesauri. So this project, Reverse Dictionary, is meant to go hand-in-hand with Related Words to act as a word-finding and brainstorming toolset. For those interested, I also developed Describing Words which helps you find adjectives and interesting descriptors for things (e.g. waves, sunsets, trees, etc.).

In case you didn't notice, you can click on words in the search results and you'll be presented with the definition of that word (if available). The definitions are sourced from the famous and open-source WordNet database, so a huge thanks to the many contributors for creating such an awesome free resource.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: Elastic Search, @HubSpot, WordNet, and @mongodb.

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