furlough
lay off
cancellation
plea
lapse
out on one's ear
daff
lose one's head
in the interest of justice
send about one's business
ditch
dismissible
miscancel
nondismissal
fail
chassé
discard
kiss off
dismissee
close out
dismissive
write-off
dismisser
cancellability
liquidation
settlement
send away
giveback
bowl out
shut up
kick off
cesser
close
dismission
fluff off
deflate
get the chop
get one's marching orders
give someone their cards
get the elbow
get the boot
go by the board
conclusive
subcancellate
get the sack
abate
hand someone their cards
res judicata
dereferenceable
rejection
redismiss
let go
send someone to the showers
toss
give the sack
pay up
shakeout
throw out
pay
ante up
winnow out
reject
show someone the door
eliminate
terminational
rule out
declense
rejectment
allowance
shit-can
all in a day's work
wash
dismissable
rainout
sack
short shrift
amove
burn
dump
Cassandra complex
scrap
conge
slough
dismissingly
the hell with it
discharge
castoff
eliminability
congee
explementary
absolvitor
throw
obliteration
trash
hand someone his hat
cast away
disendorse
out on one's ear
dismissible
dismissive
conclusive
subcancellate
dereferenceable
terminational
all in a day's work
dismissable
castoff
explementary
dismissingly
cancellation
plea
lapse
nondismissal
fail
dismissee
write-off
dismisser
cancellability
liquidation
settlement
giveback
cesser
dismission
res judicata
rejection
shakeout
rejectment
allowance
wash
rainout
sack
short shrift
Cassandra complex
conge
eliminability
congee
absolvitor
obliteration
furlough
lay off
daff
lose one's head
send about one's business
ditch
miscancel
chassé
discard
kiss off
close out
send away
bowl out
shut up
kick off
close
fluff off
deflate
get the chop
get one's marching orders
give someone their cards
get the elbow
get the boot
go by the board
get the sack
abate
hand someone their cards
redismiss
let go
send someone to the showers
toss
give the sack
pay up
throw out
pay
ante up
winnow out
reject
show someone the door
eliminate
rule out
declense
shit-can
amove
burn
dump
scrap
slough
discharge
throw
trash
hand someone his hat
cast away
disendorse
noun
- The property of being cancellate.
- The act, process, or result of cancelling; as, the cancellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself.
- In United States intellectual property law, a proceeding in which an interested party seeks to cancel the registration of a trademark or patent.
- The operation of striking out common factors, e.g. in both the dividend and divisor.
- A postmark that marks a postage stamp so as to prevent its reuse.
noun
- A termination of a right etc., through disuse or neglect.
- A decline or fall in standards.
- A common-law rule that if the person to whom property is willed were to die before the testator, then the gift would be ineffective.
- A pause in continuity.
- A marked decrease in air temperature with increasing altitude because the ground is warmer than the surrounding air.
- A fall or apostasy.
- An interval of time between events.
- A temporary failure; a slip.
- memory lapse
verb
noun
- A failure, especially of a financial transaction (a termination of an action).
- A failure (condition of being unsuccessful).
- A failing grade in an academic examination.
- Poor quality; substandard workmanship.
- A failure (something incapable of success).
- A piece of turf cut from grassland.
adj
verb
- Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually an infinitive.)
- To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's business obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent.
- To receive one or more non-passing grades in academic pursuits.
- To give a student a non-passing grade in an academic endeavour.
- To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert; to disappoint one's expectations.
- To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence.
- To neglect.
- To be unsuccessful.
- Of a machine, etc.: to cease to operate correctly.
noun
noun
- termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities
- a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government
- a community of people smaller than a town
- a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it
- the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies
- something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making
- an area where a group of families live together
verb
- To dismiss; to expel; to remove from a position.
- To make the first kick in a game or part of a game.
- To suddenly become more active.
- To start; to launch.
- To shut down or turn off suddenly.
- To force the weaning of a bovine cow's calf by restricting the calf's access to its mother's udders. Used figuratively or literally.
- To be overcome with anger, to start an argument or a fight.
- To have a fight or argument start.
- To die or quit permanently.
verb
- To cancel or reverse (a trading position).
- To move to a position allowing electricity to flow.
- To have a vector sum of 0; that is, to form a closed polygon.
- To move to a position preventing fluid from flowing.
- To make (e.g. a gap) smaller.
- To make a sale.
- To move so that an opening is closed.
- To grapple; to engage in close combat.
- To make the final outs, usually three, of a game.
- To terminate an application, window, file or database connection, etc.
- To come or gather around; to enclose; to encompass; to confine.
- To come to an end.
- To put an end to; to conclude; to complete; to finish; to consummate.
- To obstruct (an opening).
- To do the tasks (putting things away, locking doors, etc.) required to prepare a store or other establishment to shut down for the night.
- To turn off; to switch off.
adj
- Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact.
- Marked, evident.
- Intimate; well-loved.
- Strictly confined; carefully guarded.
- Accurate; careful; precise; also, attentive; undeviating; strict.
- Almost, but not quite (getting to an answer or goal); near
- Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude.
- At a little distance; near.
- Of a corporation or other business entity, closely held.
- Hot, humid, with no wind.
- Articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate.
- Narrow; confined.
- Short.
- Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced.
noun
- The common staircase in a tenement.
- A cathedral close.
- The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not enclosed
- The point at the end of a sales pitch when the consumer is asked to buy.
- The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.
- A very narrow alley between two buildings, often overhung by one of the buildings above the ground floor.
- An end or conclusion.
- A grapple in wrestling.
- The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction.
- The time when checkin staff will no longer accept passengers for a flight.
- A double bar marking the end.
- A street that ends in a dead end.
verb
- To dismiss or otherwise bring to an end (legal proceedings) before they are completed, especially on procedural grounds rather than on the merits.
- Of legal proceedings: to be dismissed or otherwise brought to an end before they are completed, especially on procedural grounds rather than on the merits.
- Of a writ or other legal document: to become null and void; to cease to have effect.
- To make (a writ or other legal document) void; to nullify.
- To lower (something) in price or value.
- To put an end to (a nuisance).
- To cut away or hammer down (material from metalwork, a sculpture, etc.) in such a way as to leave a figure in relief.
- To decrease in amount or size.
- To lower in price or value; (law) specifically, of a bequest in a will: to lower in value because the testator's estate is insufficient to satisfy all the bequests in full.
- To decrease in force or intensity; to subside.
- To lessen (something) in force or intensity; to moderate.
- To enter upon and unlawfully seize (land) after the owner has died, thus preventing an heir from taking possession of it.
- To reduce (something) in amount or size.
noun
verb
verb
- To dismiss from employment.
- To release from one's grasp; to go from a state of holding on to a state of no longer holding on.
- To ignore (a comment, etc.).
- To emotionally disengage or to distract oneself from a situation.
- To fail to maintain a standard of appearance, behavior, or performance.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see let, go.
- To gain weight
verb
- To remove or expel someone from a job, position, or activity, especially because of poor behavior or performance.
- To remove a player from a particular team competition before the conclusion of the event, especially because that player's contribution on this occasion has been below his or her expected level of performance.
verb
- To discard; to throw away.
- To masturbate
- To subject to trials; to harass.
- To lift with a sudden or violent motion.
- To flip a coin, to decide a point of contention.
- To search (a room or a cell), sometimes leaving visible disorder, as for valuables or evidence of a crime.
- To roll and tumble; to be in violent commotion.
- To drink in large draughts; to gulp.
- To vomit.
- To throw with an initial upward direction.
- To agitate; to make restless.
- To be tossed, as a fleet on the ocean, or as a ship in heavy seas.
- To peak (the oars), to lift them from the rowlocks and hold them perpendicularly, the handle resting on the bottom of the boat.
- To stir or mix (a salad).
noun
- A throw, a lob, of a ball etc., with an initial upward direction, particularly with a lack of care.
- A jot, in the phrase 'give a toss'.
- concern or consideration.
- The coin toss before a cricket match in order to decide who bats first, or before a football match in order to decide the direction of play.
- A state of agitation; commotion.
- A measure of sprats.
- A haughty throwing up of the head.
verb
- To dismiss or expel someone from any longer performing duty or attending somewhere.
- To offer an idea for consideration.
- To produce in a haphazard fashion.
- To emit.
- To cause or experience debilitating muscle or joint pain in (a body part).
- To put into a state of confusion.
- To cause to project.
- To utter carelessly.
- To outdistance; to leave behind.
- To discard; to dispense with something; to throw away.
verb
- cancel or discharge a debt
- give money, usually in exchange for goods or services
- convey, as of a compliment, regards, attention, etc.; bestow
- bring in
- do or give something to somebody in return
- dedicate
- be worth it
- render
- bear (a cost or penalty), in recompense for some action
- make a compensation for
- discharge or settle
noun
noun
- Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances
- Permission; granting, conceding, or admitting
- A permissible deviation in the fineness and weight of coins, owing to the difficulty in securing exact conformity to the standard prescribed by law.
- A planned deviation between an exact dimension and a nominal or theoretical dimension.
- Acknowledgment.
- A child's allowance; pocket money.
- An amount, portion, or share that is allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose
- A permitted reduction in the weight that a racehorse must carry.
- A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, differing by country.
verb
noun
- any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out
- a thin coat of water-base paint
- the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)
- the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)
- the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway)
- the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
- a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other
- garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering
verb
- clean with some chemical process
- cleanse (one's body) with soap and water
- cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water
- move by or as if by water
- be capable of being washed
- admit to testing or proof
- separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals)
- apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to
- remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent
- form by erosion
- make moist
- wash or flow against
- wash by removing particles
- to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking
noun
- Dismissal from employment, or discharge from a position, usually as give (someone) the sack or get the sack. See verb sense⁵ below.
- 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).
- 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.
- One of the square bases anchored at first base, second base, or third base.
- Loot or booty obtained by pillage.
- The plunder and pillaging of a captured town or city.
- A successful tackle of the quarterback behind the line of scrimmage. See verb sense⁴ below.
- The scrotum.
- Bed (either literally or figuratively); usually as hit the sack or in the sack. See also sack out.
verb
- To put in a sack or sacks.
- To discharge from a job or position; to fire.
- To tackle the quarterback behind the line of scrimmage, especially before he is able to throw a pass.
- To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders.
- To plunder or pillage, especially after capture; to obtain spoils of war from.
noun
- Sometimes preceded by the: a quick dismissal or rejection, especially one which is impolite and undertaken without proper consideration.
- A short interval of relief or time.
- Speedy execution, usually without any proper determination of guilt.
- A rushed sacrament of confession given to a prisoner who is to be executed very soon.
verb
- To discard.
- To make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat.
- In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.
- To injure (a person or animal) with heat or chemicals that produce similar damage.
- In pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair, or to deal a dead card.
- To be consumed by fire, or in flames.
- To increase the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them lighter (compare dodge).
- To render subtitles into a video's content while transcoding it, making the subtitles part of the image.
- To be hot, e.g. due to embarrassment.
- To sunburn.
- To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does.
- To overheat so as to make unusable.
- To insult or defeat.
- To accidentally touch a moving stone.
- To blackmail.
- To be converted to another element in a nuclear fusion reaction, especially in a star.
- To compromise (an agent's cover story).
- To waste (time); to waste money or other resources.
- To cause to be consumed by fire.
- To betray.
- To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize.
- To shoot someone with a firearm.
- To become overheated to the point of being unusable.
- To cauterize.
- To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
noun
- Physical sensation in the muscles following strenuous exercise, caused by build-up of lactic acid.
- Tobacco.
- The writing of data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
- An effective insult, often in the expression sick burn (excellent or badass insult).
- The firing of a spacecraft's rockets in order to change its course.
- A stream.
- A sensation resembling such an injury.
- The act of burning something with fire.
- A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.
- An intense non-physical sting, as left by shame or an effective insult.
- The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking.
- A disease in vegetables; brand.
verb
- To discard.
- To make into scrap.
- to fight
- To stop working on indefinitely.
- To scrapbook; to create scrapbooks.
- To dispose of at a scrapyard.
noun
- Loose-leaf tobacco of a low grade, such as sweepings left over from handling higher grades.
- A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
- A fight, tussle, skirmish.
- The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat.
- The smallest amount.
- Discarded objects (especially metal) that may be dismantled to recover their constituent materials, junk.
- A piece of deep-fried batter left over from frying fish, sometimes sold with chips.
- A Hispanic criminal, especially a Mexican or one affiliated with the Sureno gang.
- Leftover food.
verb
- To discard.
- To shed (skin).
- To slide off (like a layer of skin).
- To commit truancy, be absent from school without permission.
noun
- A small pond, often alkaline, many but not all formed by glacial potholes.
- Dead skin on a sore or ulcer.
- A muddy or marshy area.
- A type of swamp or shallow lake system, typically formed as or by the backwater of a larger waterway, similar to a bayou with trees.
- A state of depression.
- The skin shed by a snake or other reptile.
- A secondary channel of a river delta, usually flushed by the tide.
verb
- To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
- To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.
- To operate (any weapon that fires a projectile, such as a shotgun or sling).
- To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.
- To release (an accumulated charge).
- To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty.
- To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.
- To free of a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to forgive; to clear.
- To release (an auxiliary assumption) from the list of assumptions used in arguments, and return to the main argument.
- To unload a ship or another means of transport.
- To give forth; to emit or send out.
- To release (an inpatient) from hospital.
- To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled.
- To bleach out or to remove or efface, as by a chemical process.
- To release (a member of the armed forces) from service.
- To accomplish or complete, as an obligation.
- To expel or let go.
- To let fly; to give expression to; to utter.
noun
- 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 process of flowing out.
- The act of firing a projectile, especially from a firearm.
- Pus or exudate (other than blood) from a wound or orifice, usually due to infection or pathology.
- The act of accomplishing (an obligation) or repaying a debt etc.; performance.
- The act of expelling or letting go.
- The act of releasing an inpatient from hospital.
- The act of releasing an accumulated charge.
- The act of releasing a member of the armed forces from service.
- The process of unloading something.
verb
- To discard.
- To deliver (the ball) illegally by straightening the bowling arm during delivery.
- To install (a bridge).
- To eject or cause to fall off.
- To project or send forth.
- To put on hastily; to spread carelessly.
- Synonym of pass
- Of animals: to give birth to (young).
- To lift the opponent off the ground and bring him back down, especially into a position behind the thrower.
- To twist two or more filaments of (silk, etc.) so as to form one thread; to twist together, as singles, in a direction contrary to the twist of the singles themselves; sometimes applied to the whole class of operations by which silk is prepared for the weaver.
- To send (an error) to an exception-handling mechanism in order to interrupt normal processing.
- To select (a pitcher); to assign a pitcher to a given role (such as starter or reliever).
- To deliver.
- To hurl; to cause an object to move rapidly through the air.
- To roll (a die or dice).
- To send desperately.
- To imprison.
- To change in order to give the illusion that the voice is that of someone else.
- To show sudden emotion, especially anger.
- To cause a certain number on the die or dice to be shown after rolling it.
- To move to another position or condition; to displace.
- To confuse or mislead.
- To organize an event, especially a party.
- To intentionally lose a game.
- To make (a pot) by shaping clay as it turns on a wheel.
noun
noun
- The cancellation, erasure or deletion of something.
- The cancellation of the function, structure, or both of a vessel or organ; for example, the occlusion of the lumen of a duct, blood vessel, or lymphatic vessel, be it solely functional (as when squeezed by nearby mass effect or inflammation) or both structural and functional (as when clogged with thrombus, embolus, or fibrosis).
- The total destruction of something.
verb
- To discard.
- To disrespect someone or something
- To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop.
- To make into a mess.
- To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or crush.
- To hold back by a trash or leash, as a dog in pursuing game; hence, to retard, encumber, or restrain; to clog; to hinder vexatiously.
- To beat soundly in a game.
noun
- A container into which things are discarded.
- Something worthless or of poor quality.
- (fandom slang, humorous, uncountable) A fan who is excessively obsessed with their fandom and its fanworks.
- The disused stems, leaves, or vines of a crop, as well as any weeds mixed therewith, which will either be plowed in as green manure or be removed by raking, grazing, or burning.
- A dubious assertion, either for appearing untrue or for being excessively boastful.
- Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.
- (slang, derogatory) People of low social status or class. (See, for example, white trash or Eurotrash.)
- Temporary storage on disk for files that the user has deleted, allowing them to be recovered if necessary.
- Loose-leaf tobacco of a low grade, with much less commercial value than the principal grades.
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