abweisen — meaning in English

English meaning

• dismiss verb To fire someone from a job, or to formally end someone's employment.
• dismissal noun The act of firing someone from their job.
• repel verb To drive back or fight off an attack or attacker.
• spurn verb To reject something or someone with contempt or disdain.

Senses

abweisen is used for these senses in English:

• dismiss (transitive) To reject; to refuse to accept.
• repel (transitive) To reject, put off (a request, demand etc.). [from 15th c.]
• spurn (ambitransitive) To reject disdainfully; contemn; scorn.
• turn down (idiomatic) To refuse, decline, or deny.
• turn out (transitive, idiomatic) To refuse service or shelter; to eject or evict.

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.

dismissal — full definition

1. noun The act of firing someone from their job.
2. noun The rejection of a legal case, claim, or idea.

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