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DISMISSED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having lost your job
Synonyms:
discharged; dismissed; fired; laid-off; pink-slipped
Classified under:
Similar:
unemployed (not engaged in a gainful occupation)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb dismiss
Context examples:
Our cabs were dismissed, and, following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In vain he declared his innocence; he was dismissed with no better answer.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Here we dismissed our cab, and made our way up the drive together.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The carpet seemed continuous and firmly nailed, so I dismissed the idea of a trap-door.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Jo was dismissed, but chose to march up and down the hall like a sentinel, having some fear that the prisoner might bolt.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Myrna Bonaldo, head of the IOC Laboratory for Flavivirus Molecular Biology and another research coordinator, dismissed any possibility that the mutation may compromise the effectiveness of the vaccine used against yellow fever.
(Brazil scientists find mutations in yellow fever virus, Agência Brasil)
He desired me to give him some account of my travels; and, to let me see that I should be treated without ceremony, he dismissed all his attendants with a turn of his finger; at which, to my great astonishment, they vanished in an instant, like visions in a dream when we awake on a sudden.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Having thus pointed the moral and reduced his flock to a fitting state of docility, he dismissed them once more to their labors and withdrew himself to his own private chamber, there to seek spiritual aid in the discharge of the duties of his high office.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Did I not, in my truest thoughts, always recurring and always dismissed, see past the beauty of the face, and, peering into the soul, discern the twin shadows of selfishness and of fickleness glooming at the back of it?
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The more I reflected the more convinced I grew that I was dealing with a case of cerebral disease; and though I dismissed my servants to bed, I loaded an old revolver, that I might be found in some posture of self-defence.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
