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verb
noun
- A discarded playing card in a card game.
- (programming) A temporary variable used to receive a value of no importance and unable to be read later.
- Anything discarded.
- getting rid of something that is regarded as useless or undesirable
- (cards) the act of throwing out a useless card or of failing to follow suit
- anything that is cast aside or discarded
verb
- (euphemistic) To dismiss from employment.
- (intransitive, with of and transitive, with object before go) To release from one's grasp; to go from a state of holding on to a state of no longer holding on.
- (euphemistic, usually reflexively) To gain weight.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see let, go.
- To emotionally disengage or distract oneself from a situation.
- (transitive) To ignore (a comment, etc.).
- (euphemistic, transitive) To fail to maintain a standard of appearance, behavior, or performance.
- be relaxed
- release, as from one's grip
noun
verb
- (transitive) To dismiss; to expel; to remove from a position.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To suddenly become more active.
- (intransitive, US, idiomatic, colloquial, euphemistic) To die or quit permanently.
- (intransitive, UK, idiomatic, colloquial) To be overcome with anger, to start an argument or a fight; to behave aggressively.
- (transitive, US, idiomatic, ranching, slang) To force the weaning of a bovine cow's calf by restricting the calf's access to its mother's udders, whether by literally kicking it away or another method.
- (ambitransitive) To make the first kick in a game or part of a game.
- (ambitransitive, idiomatic) To start; to launch; to set in motion.
- (intransitive, US, idiomatic) To shut down or turn off suddenly.
- (intransitive, UK, idiomatic, colloquial, impersonal) To have a fight or argument start; to fight or argue.
- commence officially
noun
- (informal) A dismissal or rejection.
- A tool for felling trees or chopping wood etc. consisting of a heavy head flattened to a blade on one side, and a handle attached to it.
- An ancient weapon consisting of a head that has one or two blades and a long handle.
- (finance) A position, interest, or reason in buying and selling stock, often with ulterior motives.
- (slang, music) A gigging musician's particular instrument, especially a guitar in rock music or a saxophone in jazz.
- (figurative) A drastic reduction or cutback.
- an edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle
verb
noun
- demotion of status etc.
- mild banishment; consignment to an inferior position
- (sports) Moving from one division to a lower one, due to finishing the season with fewer points than others.
- demotion in a hierarchy, for example in business
- the act of assigning (someone or something) to a particular class or category
- authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions
verb
- To dismiss or discharge from office.
- (transitive) To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).
- (transitive) To murder.
- (transitive) To move from one place to another, especially to take away.
- (transitive) To delete.
- (cricket, transitive) To dismiss a batsman.
- shift the position or location of, as for business, legal, educational, or military purposes
- remove from a position or an office
- dispose of
- remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
- stay away or leave
- kill intentionally and with premeditation
- get rid of something abstract
- cause to leave
noun
- (cooking, now chiefly historical) A dish served to replace an earlier one during a meal; a part of a new course.
- (British) (at some public schools) A division of the school, especially the form prior to last
- The act of removing something.
- The act of resetting a horse's shoe.
- (figurative, by extension) Emotional distance or indifference.
- A step or gradation (as in the phrase "at one remove")
- (figurative, by extension) State of mind allowing for a certain degree of objectivity in evaluating things.
- Distance in time or space; interval.
- degree of figurative distance or separation
noun
- the act of removing
- dismissal from office
- The dismissal of someone from office.
- (slang, euphemistic) Murder.
- (Ireland) An evening funeral ritual in which the coffin holding the deceased is brought, usually from a funeral home, to the church where the funeral mass will be celebrated the following day. Prayers are said before and after the journey, after which mourners are typically received at the home of the deceased.
- The relocation of a business etc.
- The process of removing or the fact of being removed.
noun
- (informal) Dismissal from employment, or discharge from a position.
- (uncountable) Loot or booty obtained by pillage.
- (colloquial, US, literally or figurative) Bed.
- (baseball) One of the square bases anchored at first base, second base, or third base.
- (Midland US) Any disposable bag.
- (vulgar, slang) The scrotum.
- A bag; especially a large bag of strong, coarse material for storage and handling of various commodities, such as potatoes, coal, coffee; or, a bag with handles used at a supermarket, a grocery sack; or, a small bag for small items, a satchel.
- Alternative spelling of sac (“sacrifice”).
- (American football) A successful tackle of the quarterback behind the line of scrimmage.
- The amount a sack holds; also, an archaic or historical measure of varying capacity, depending on commodity type and according to local usage; an old English measure of weight, usually of wool, equal to 13 stone (182 pounds), or in other sources, 26 stone (364 pounds).
- (uncountable) The plunder and pillaging of a captured town or city.
- a hanging bed of canvas or rope netting (usually suspended between two trees); swings easily
- a bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases
- the plundering of a place by an army or mob; usually involves destruction and slaughter
- the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
- any of various light dry strong white wine from Spain and Canary Islands (including sherry)
- an enclosed space
- a woman's full loose hiplength jacket
- the quantity contained in a sack
- a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist
verb
- (informal, transitive) To discharge from a job or position; to fire.
- To put in a sack or sacks.
- (Australia, slang, transitive) To give up on, to abandon, delay, to not think about someone or something.
- To plunder or pillage, especially after capture; to obtain spoils of war from.
- To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders.
- (American football) To tackle the quarterback behind the line of scrimmage, especially before he is able to throw a pass.
- Alternative spelling of sac (“sacrifice”).
- plunder (a town) after capture
- make as a net profit
- put in a sack
- terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
noun
verb
noun
- an abrupt and unceremonious dismissal
- formal permission to depart
- (architecture) a concave molding
- a Chinese rice gruel eaten for breakfast
- Leave, formal permission for some action, (originally and particularly):
- (Asian cooking) A type of thick rice porridge or soup, sometimes prepared with vegetables and/or meat.
verb
verb
- To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.
- To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.
- To let fly; to give expression to; to utter.
- (electricity) To release (an accumulated charge).
- To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
- To free of a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to forgive; to clear.
- (military) To release (a member of the armed forces) from service.
- To unload a ship or another means of transport.
- (transitive, textiles) To bleach out or to remove or efface, as by a chemical process.
- (medicine) To release (an inpatient) from hospital.
- To operate (any weapon that fires a projectile, such as a shotgun or sling).
- To accomplish or complete, as an obligation.
- To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty.
- To give forth; to emit or send out.
- To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled.
- (logic) To release (an auxiliary assumption) from the list of assumptions used in arguments, and return to the main argument.
- To expel or let go.
- To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.
- remove the charge from
- remove (cargo, people, etc.) from and leave
- release from military service
- complete or carry out
- become empty or void of its content
- free from obligations or duties
- pronounce not guilty of criminal charges
- eliminate (a substance)
- go off or discharge
- cause to go off
- pour forth or release
noun
- (military) The act of releasing a member of the armed forces from service.
- (medicine) The act of releasing an inpatient from hospital.
- The process of flowing out.
- (medicine, uncountable) Pus or exudate or mucus (but in modern usage not exclusively blood) from a wound or orifice, usually due to pathological or hormonal changes.
- (hydrology) The volume of water transported by a river in a certain amount of time, usually in units of m³/s (cubic meters per second).
- The act of firing a projectile, especially from a firearm.
- (electricity) The act of releasing an accumulated charge.
- The process of removing the load borne by something.
- (law) Release from liability, as granted to someone having served in a position of trust, such as to the officers and governors of a corporate body.
- The material thus released.
- The act of accomplishing (an obligation) or repaying a debt etc.; performance.
- the pouring forth of a fluid
- the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
- the sudden giving off of energy
- the act of discharging a gun
- any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body
- a formal written statement of relinquishment
- a substance that is emitted or released
- electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field
- the act of venting
noun
noun
- An ouster; dispossession.
- (military, firearms) The fourth circle on a target, outside the inner and magpie.
- Someone who admits to something publicly.
- An outer part.
- (sports) An uncovered section of the seating at a stadium or sportsground.
- (UK politics) One who supports leaving the European Union.
- Someone who outs another.
- A shot which strikes the outer of a target.
- (retail) The smallest single unit sold by wholesalers to retailers, usually one retail display box.
- One who puts out, ousts, or expels.
adj
verb
- (slang, transitive) To fire from a job; to dismiss.
- (transitive, slang, rare) To inflict bullet shots upon.
- (transitive, informal) To make a shot, especially with great speed.
- (intransitive, informal) To speed, like a bullet.
- (transitive, informal) To draw attention to (text) by, or as if by, placing a graphic bullet in front of it.
noun
- (banking, finance) A large scheduled repayment of the principal of a loan; a balloon payment.
- (chess, uncountable) Ellipsis of bullet chess.
- (slang) One year of prison time.
- A young or little bull; a male calf.
- (Canada, US, horse racing) The best workout time at a track on a given day at a specific distance, traditionally marked by a printer's bullet.
- A projectile, usually of metal, shot from a gun at high speed.
- Ammunition for a sling or slingshot which has been manufactured for such use.
- A rejection letter, as for employment, admission to a school or a competition.
- (slang) An ace (the playing card).
- (fishing) A plumb or sinker.
- Ellipsis of bullet vibrator.
- (attributive) Very fast (speedy).
- (informal) An entire round of unfired ammunition for a firearm, including the projectile, the cartridge casing, the propellant charge, etc.
- (Ireland, particularly Northern Ireland) The heavy projectile thrown in a game of road bowling.
- A notation used on pop music charts to indicate that a song is climbing in the rankings.
- (figuratively) Anything that is projected extremely fast.
- (Australia) A roughly bullet-shaped sweet consisting of a cylinder of liquorice covered in chocolate.
- (typography) A printed symbol in the form of a solid circle ⟨•⟩, often used to mark items in a list.
- a projectile that is fired from a gun
- (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity
- a high-speed passenger train
noun
verb
- (transitive) To discard or abandon.
- (intransitive) To dig ditches.
- (ambitransitive) To deliberately not attend classes; to play hookey.
- (transitive) To dig ditches around.
- (ambitransitive, aviation) To deliberately crash-land an airplane on water.
- Alternative form of deech.
- (transitive) To throw into a ditch.
- crash or crash-land
- forsake
- cut a trench in, as for drainage
- make an emergency landing on water
- throw away
- sever all ties with, usually unceremoniously or irresponsibly
noun
noun
- Removal, taking away.
- (philosophy) In Hegelian philosophy, the situation where a tension between contradictory opposites is resolved by the addition of a new term which pushes the old opposition into its relation.
- (chemistry) A flotation method in which the material to be separated is adsorbed on the surface of gas bubbles in a liquid and is collected on an upper layer of an immiscible liquid
verb
noun
verb
- dismiss, usually for economic reasons
- put an end to a state or an activity
- (ambitransitive, art) In painting, to apply gentle strokes to smooth a wet coat of paint so as to remove visible roller- or brush-marks, commonly using a dry brush; a similar technique, but using a loaded laying-off brush, may produce a smooth coat of paint when using a roller or the usual brush techniques would leave marks.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To cease, quit, stop (doing something).
- (transitive) To plan out (a navigational course) using a chart.
- (transitive, of a bookmaker) To place all or part of a bet with another bookmaker in order to reduce risk.
- (transitive, chiefly US, idiomatic) (of an employer) To dismiss (workers) from employment, e.g. at a time of low business volume or through no fault of the worker, often with a severance package.
- simple past of lie off
- (transitive and intransitive, idiomatic) To stop bothering, teasing, or pestering someone; to leave (someone) alone.
noun
- The dismissal of someone from a job due to poor work performance.
- The act of adding fuel to a fire.
- The discharge of a gun or other weapon.
- (ceramics) The process of applying heat or fire, especially to clay, etc., to produce pottery.
- Cauterization.
- The fuel for a fire.
- the act of setting something on fire
- the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
- the act of discharging a gun
- the act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy
verb
verb
noun
noun
- the act of withdrawing
- the act of ceasing to participate in an activity
- avoiding emotional involvement
- a retraction of a previously held position
- formal separation from an alliance or federation
- the act of withdrawing blood, tumors, etc.
- a method of birth control in which coitus is initiated but the penis is deliberately withdrawn before ejaculation
- the act of taking out money or other capital
- the termination of drug taking
- Receiving from someone's care what one has earlier entrusted to them. Usually refers to money.
- The sum of money taken from a bank account.
- A method of birth control which consists of removing the penis from the vagina before ejaculation.
- A type of metabolic shock the body undergoes when a substance (such as a drug) on which a patient is dependent is withheld.
- An act of withdrawing or a state of being withdrawn.
verb
- dismiss from consideration or a contest
- terminate, end, or take out
- eliminate from the body
- remove from a contest or race
- remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations
- get rid of something
- kill in large numbers
- (transitive) To exclude (from investigation or from further competition).
- (transitive) To completely remove, get rid of, put an end to.
- (ambitransitive, physiology) To excrete (waste products).
- (transitive, military) To render (a facility) unusable, to destroy it; to disable (a soldier), make them unable to fight (typically but not necessarily by killing)
- (transitive, slang) To kill (a person or animal).
- (accounting) To record amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.
verb
- dismiss from consideration or a contest
- refuse entrance or membership
- reject with contempt
- not accept as true
- not accept something given or offered
- deem wrong or inappropriate
- resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ
- (transitive) To refuse a romantic advance.
- (basketball) To block a shot, especially if it sends the ball off the court.
- (transitive) To refuse to accept; to forswear.
noun
verb
- dismiss from consideration or a contest
- include or exclude by determining judicially or in agreement with rules
- make impossible, especially beforehand
- (idiomatic, transitive) To reject an option from a list of possibilities.
- (transitive) To disallow.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To make something impossible.
- (transitive) To make unavailable.
- (transitive) To cross an item out by drawing a straight line through it, as with a ruler.
noun
noun
- (informal) A dismissal or rejection.
- A tool for felling trees or chopping wood etc. consisting of a heavy head flattened to a blade on one side, and a handle attached to it.
- An ancient weapon consisting of a head that has one or two blades and a long handle.
- (finance) A position, interest, or reason in buying and selling stock, often with ulterior motives.
- (slang, music) A gigging musician's particular instrument, especially a guitar in rock music or a saxophone in jazz.
- (figurative) A drastic reduction or cutback.
- an edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle
verb
noun
- demotion of status etc.
- mild banishment; consignment to an inferior position
- (sports) Moving from one division to a lower one, due to finishing the season with fewer points than others.
- demotion in a hierarchy, for example in business
- the act of assigning (someone or something) to a particular class or category
- authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions
noun
- the act of removing
- dismissal from office
- The dismissal of someone from office.
- (slang, euphemistic) Murder.
- (Ireland) An evening funeral ritual in which the coffin holding the deceased is brought, usually from a funeral home, to the church where the funeral mass will be celebrated the following day. Prayers are said before and after the journey, after which mourners are typically received at the home of the deceased.
- The relocation of a business etc.
- The process of removing or the fact of being removed.
noun
- (informal) Dismissal from employment, or discharge from a position.
- (uncountable) Loot or booty obtained by pillage.
- (colloquial, US, literally or figurative) Bed.
- (baseball) One of the square bases anchored at first base, second base, or third base.
- (Midland US) Any disposable bag.
- (vulgar, slang) The scrotum.
- A bag; especially a large bag of strong, coarse material for storage and handling of various commodities, such as potatoes, coal, coffee; or, a bag with handles used at a supermarket, a grocery sack; or, a small bag for small items, a satchel.
- Alternative spelling of sac (“sacrifice”).
- (American football) A successful tackle of the quarterback behind the line of scrimmage.
- The amount a sack holds; also, an archaic or historical measure of varying capacity, depending on commodity type and according to local usage; an old English measure of weight, usually of wool, equal to 13 stone (182 pounds), or in other sources, 26 stone (364 pounds).
- (uncountable) The plunder and pillaging of a captured town or city.
- a hanging bed of canvas or rope netting (usually suspended between two trees); swings easily
- a bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases
- the plundering of a place by an army or mob; usually involves destruction and slaughter
- the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
- any of various light dry strong white wine from Spain and Canary Islands (including sherry)
- an enclosed space
- a woman's full loose hiplength jacket
- the quantity contained in a sack
- a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist
verb
- (informal, transitive) To discharge from a job or position; to fire.
- To put in a sack or sacks.
- (Australia, slang, transitive) To give up on, to abandon, delay, to not think about someone or something.
- To plunder or pillage, especially after capture; to obtain spoils of war from.
- To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders.
- (American football) To tackle the quarterback behind the line of scrimmage, especially before he is able to throw a pass.
- Alternative spelling of sac (“sacrifice”).
- plunder (a town) after capture
- make as a net profit
- put in a sack
- terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
noun
verb
noun
- an abrupt and unceremonious dismissal
- formal permission to depart
- (architecture) a concave molding
- a Chinese rice gruel eaten for breakfast
- Leave, formal permission for some action, (originally and particularly):
- (Asian cooking) A type of thick rice porridge or soup, sometimes prepared with vegetables and/or meat.
verb
noun
noun
- An ouster; dispossession.
- (military, firearms) The fourth circle on a target, outside the inner and magpie.
- Someone who admits to something publicly.
- An outer part.
- (sports) An uncovered section of the seating at a stadium or sportsground.
- (UK politics) One who supports leaving the European Union.
- Someone who outs another.
- A shot which strikes the outer of a target.
- (retail) The smallest single unit sold by wholesalers to retailers, usually one retail display box.
- One who puts out, ousts, or expels.
adj
noun
noun
- Removal, taking away.
- (philosophy) In Hegelian philosophy, the situation where a tension between contradictory opposites is resolved by the addition of a new term which pushes the old opposition into its relation.
- (chemistry) A flotation method in which the material to be separated is adsorbed on the surface of gas bubbles in a liquid and is collected on an upper layer of an immiscible liquid
noun
- The dismissal of someone from a job due to poor work performance.
- The act of adding fuel to a fire.
- The discharge of a gun or other weapon.
- (ceramics) The process of applying heat or fire, especially to clay, etc., to produce pottery.
- Cauterization.
- The fuel for a fire.
- the act of setting something on fire
- the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
- the act of discharging a gun
- the act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy
verb
noun
- the act of withdrawing
- the act of ceasing to participate in an activity
- avoiding emotional involvement
- a retraction of a previously held position
- formal separation from an alliance or federation
- the act of withdrawing blood, tumors, etc.
- a method of birth control in which coitus is initiated but the penis is deliberately withdrawn before ejaculation
- the act of taking out money or other capital
- the termination of drug taking
- Receiving from someone's care what one has earlier entrusted to them. Usually refers to money.
- The sum of money taken from a bank account.
- A method of birth control which consists of removing the penis from the vagina before ejaculation.
- A type of metabolic shock the body undergoes when a substance (such as a drug) on which a patient is dependent is withheld.
- An act of withdrawing or a state of being withdrawn.
verb
noun
- A discarded playing card in a card game.
- (programming) A temporary variable used to receive a value of no importance and unable to be read later.
- Anything discarded.
- getting rid of something that is regarded as useless or undesirable
- (cards) the act of throwing out a useless card or of failing to follow suit
- anything that is cast aside or discarded
verb
- (euphemistic) To dismiss from employment.
- (intransitive, with of and transitive, with object before go) To release from one's grasp; to go from a state of holding on to a state of no longer holding on.
- (euphemistic, usually reflexively) To gain weight.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see let, go.
- To emotionally disengage or distract oneself from a situation.
- (transitive) To ignore (a comment, etc.).
- (euphemistic, transitive) To fail to maintain a standard of appearance, behavior, or performance.
- be relaxed
- release, as from one's grip
verb
- (transitive) To dismiss; to expel; to remove from a position.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To suddenly become more active.
- (intransitive, US, idiomatic, colloquial, euphemistic) To die or quit permanently.
- (intransitive, UK, idiomatic, colloquial) To be overcome with anger, to start an argument or a fight; to behave aggressively.
- (transitive, US, idiomatic, ranching, slang) To force the weaning of a bovine cow's calf by restricting the calf's access to its mother's udders, whether by literally kicking it away or another method.
- (ambitransitive) To make the first kick in a game or part of a game.
- (ambitransitive, idiomatic) To start; to launch; to set in motion.
- (intransitive, US, idiomatic) To shut down or turn off suddenly.
- (intransitive, UK, idiomatic, colloquial, impersonal) To have a fight or argument start; to fight or argue.
- commence officially
verb
- To dismiss or discharge from office.
- (transitive) To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).
- (transitive) To murder.
- (transitive) To move from one place to another, especially to take away.
- (transitive) To delete.
- (cricket, transitive) To dismiss a batsman.
- shift the position or location of, as for business, legal, educational, or military purposes
- remove from a position or an office
- dispose of
- remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
- stay away or leave
- kill intentionally and with premeditation
- get rid of something abstract
- cause to leave
noun
- (cooking, now chiefly historical) A dish served to replace an earlier one during a meal; a part of a new course.
- (British) (at some public schools) A division of the school, especially the form prior to last
- The act of removing something.
- The act of resetting a horse's shoe.
- (figurative, by extension) Emotional distance or indifference.
- A step or gradation (as in the phrase "at one remove")
- (figurative, by extension) State of mind allowing for a certain degree of objectivity in evaluating things.
- Distance in time or space; interval.
- degree of figurative distance or separation
verb
- To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.
- To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.
- To let fly; to give expression to; to utter.
- (electricity) To release (an accumulated charge).
- To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
- To free of a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to forgive; to clear.
- (military) To release (a member of the armed forces) from service.
- To unload a ship or another means of transport.
- (transitive, textiles) To bleach out or to remove or efface, as by a chemical process.
- (medicine) To release (an inpatient) from hospital.
- To operate (any weapon that fires a projectile, such as a shotgun or sling).
- To accomplish or complete, as an obligation.
- To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty.
- To give forth; to emit or send out.
- To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled.
- (logic) To release (an auxiliary assumption) from the list of assumptions used in arguments, and return to the main argument.
- To expel or let go.
- To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.
- remove the charge from
- remove (cargo, people, etc.) from and leave
- release from military service
- complete or carry out
- become empty or void of its content
- free from obligations or duties
- pronounce not guilty of criminal charges
- eliminate (a substance)
- go off or discharge
- cause to go off
- pour forth or release
noun
- (military) The act of releasing a member of the armed forces from service.
- (medicine) The act of releasing an inpatient from hospital.
- The process of flowing out.
- (medicine, uncountable) Pus or exudate or mucus (but in modern usage not exclusively blood) from a wound or orifice, usually due to pathological or hormonal changes.
- (hydrology) The volume of water transported by a river in a certain amount of time, usually in units of m³/s (cubic meters per second).
- The act of firing a projectile, especially from a firearm.
- (electricity) The act of releasing an accumulated charge.
- The process of removing the load borne by something.
- (law) Release from liability, as granted to someone having served in a position of trust, such as to the officers and governors of a corporate body.
- The material thus released.
- The act of accomplishing (an obligation) or repaying a debt etc.; performance.
- the pouring forth of a fluid
- the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
- the sudden giving off of energy
- the act of discharging a gun
- any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body
- a formal written statement of relinquishment
- a substance that is emitted or released
- electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field
- the act of venting
verb
- (slang, transitive) To fire from a job; to dismiss.
- (transitive, slang, rare) To inflict bullet shots upon.
- (transitive, informal) To make a shot, especially with great speed.
- (intransitive, informal) To speed, like a bullet.
- (transitive, informal) To draw attention to (text) by, or as if by, placing a graphic bullet in front of it.
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- (banking, finance) A large scheduled repayment of the principal of a loan; a balloon payment.
- (chess, uncountable) Ellipsis of bullet chess.
- (slang) One year of prison time.
- A young or little bull; a male calf.
- (Canada, US, horse racing) The best workout time at a track on a given day at a specific distance, traditionally marked by a printer's bullet.
- A projectile, usually of metal, shot from a gun at high speed.
- Ammunition for a sling or slingshot which has been manufactured for such use.
- A rejection letter, as for employment, admission to a school or a competition.
- (slang) An ace (the playing card).
- (fishing) A plumb or sinker.
- Ellipsis of bullet vibrator.
- (attributive) Very fast (speedy).
- (informal) An entire round of unfired ammunition for a firearm, including the projectile, the cartridge casing, the propellant charge, etc.
- (Ireland, particularly Northern Ireland) The heavy projectile thrown in a game of road bowling.
- A notation used on pop music charts to indicate that a song is climbing in the rankings.
- (figuratively) Anything that is projected extremely fast.
- (Australia) A roughly bullet-shaped sweet consisting of a cylinder of liquorice covered in chocolate.
- (typography) A printed symbol in the form of a solid circle ⟨•⟩, often used to mark items in a list.
- a projectile that is fired from a gun
- (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity
- a high-speed passenger train
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- (transitive) To discard or abandon.
- (intransitive) To dig ditches.
- (ambitransitive) To deliberately not attend classes; to play hookey.
- (transitive) To dig ditches around.
- (ambitransitive, aviation) To deliberately crash-land an airplane on water.
- Alternative form of deech.
- (transitive) To throw into a ditch.
- crash or crash-land
- forsake
- cut a trench in, as for drainage
- make an emergency landing on water
- throw away
- sever all ties with, usually unceremoniously or irresponsibly
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verb
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- dismiss, usually for economic reasons
- put an end to a state or an activity
- (ambitransitive, art) In painting, to apply gentle strokes to smooth a wet coat of paint so as to remove visible roller- or brush-marks, commonly using a dry brush; a similar technique, but using a loaded laying-off brush, may produce a smooth coat of paint when using a roller or the usual brush techniques would leave marks.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To cease, quit, stop (doing something).
- (transitive) To plan out (a navigational course) using a chart.
- (transitive, of a bookmaker) To place all or part of a bet with another bookmaker in order to reduce risk.
- (transitive, chiefly US, idiomatic) (of an employer) To dismiss (workers) from employment, e.g. at a time of low business volume or through no fault of the worker, often with a severance package.
- simple past of lie off
- (transitive and intransitive, idiomatic) To stop bothering, teasing, or pestering someone; to leave (someone) alone.
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noun
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- dismiss from consideration or a contest
- terminate, end, or take out
- eliminate from the body
- remove from a contest or race
- remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations
- get rid of something
- kill in large numbers
- (transitive) To exclude (from investigation or from further competition).
- (transitive) To completely remove, get rid of, put an end to.
- (ambitransitive, physiology) To excrete (waste products).
- (transitive, military) To render (a facility) unusable, to destroy it; to disable (a soldier), make them unable to fight (typically but not necessarily by killing)
- (transitive, slang) To kill (a person or animal).
- (accounting) To record amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.
verb
- dismiss from consideration or a contest
- refuse entrance or membership
- reject with contempt
- not accept as true
- not accept something given or offered
- deem wrong or inappropriate
- resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ
- (transitive) To refuse a romantic advance.
- (basketball) To block a shot, especially if it sends the ball off the court.
- (transitive) To refuse to accept; to forswear.
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verb
- dismiss from consideration or a contest
- include or exclude by determining judicially or in agreement with rules
- make impossible, especially beforehand
- (idiomatic, transitive) To reject an option from a list of possibilities.
- (transitive) To disallow.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To make something impossible.
- (transitive) To make unavailable.
- (transitive) To cross an item out by drawing a straight line through it, as with a ruler.