0 past simple and past participle of dismiss
1 to decide that something or someone is not important and not worth considering:
2 to remove someone from their job, especially because they have done something wrong:
He has been dismissed from his job for incompetence.
Indeed, voice experience should not be ' dismissed ' as symptoms of the illness, for which drugs alone can be used.
Despite my reservations, this volume should not be immediately dismissed.
Some simply dismissed such terms as meaningless and irrelevant.
His non-social behaviour could be dismissed simply as symptoms of the disease.
He dismissed the notion that women cannot effect change in men's character.
Because they do not fit the traditional model and no new model has been introduced, they tend to be dismissed as exceptions.
It takes seriously evidence that is often dismissed as epiphenomenal by "materialist" scholars.
In other words, the complaint was dismissed because it was prematurely lodged.
