häätää — meaning in English

English meaning

• dismiss verb To fire someone from a job, or to formally end someone's employment.
• eject verb To force someone to leave a place.
• evict verb To legally force someone to leave a property they rent or occupy.
• shoo verb To wave or gesture at a person or animal to make them go away.

Senses

häätää is used for these senses in English:

• dismiss (transitive) To order to leave.
• dismiss (transitive) To reject; to refuse to accept.
• drive away (idiomatic) To force someone or something to leave
• drive off (idiomatic) To force to leave or go away.
• drive out (idiomatic) To push or to pull, i.e. to force, (someone or something) out of somewhere.
• eject (transitive) To compel (a person or persons) to leave.
• evict (transitive) To expel (one or more people) from their property; to force (one or more people) to move out.
• shoo (transitive, informal) To induce someone or something to leave.

dismiss — full definition

1. verb To fire someone from a job, or to formally end someone's employment.
2. verb To refuse to take something seriously or to consider it worth thinking about.
3. verb To tell someone they are free to leave.

eject — full definition

1. verb To force someone to leave a place.
2. verb To forcefully throw out or expel something.
3. verb To safely propel oneself out of an aircraft in an emergency, usually using an ejection seat.
4. verb To make a disc or drive pop out of a device, or to safely disconnect a removable drive.

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