v
(transitive) To send (children or pets) to stay with other people (or to boarding school, in the case of children).
v
(transitive, colloquial) Emphatic synonym of kick out: to remove, to eject, to expel.
v
(transitive, idiomatic) To bring out, use, or present.
v
To bring away from; to bring by boat from a ship, a wreck, the shore, etc.
n
(military, slang) A rapid retreat, a rout.
v
To remove someone difficult or troublesome.
v
(transitive, informal) To transport away.
v
(transitive, now rare) To dismiss (someone, especially military personnel) from service.
v
(intransitive) to leave quickly
v
(by extension, figuratively) To prepare for action.
v
(transitive, law) To eliminate (a legal representative) due to a conflict of interest.
v
(transitive) To cause to leave orbit.
v
(transitive) To surrender (a person) to the fury of soldiers.
v
(South Africa) To expel (someone) from an area because he or she lacks official permission to be there.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To move (someone or something) out of the way.
v
(intransitive) to depart in single file
n
A person who has been fired
v
(transitive) To (write and) send (something); to discharge.
v
(transitive) To take (something) from its container or storage place, so as to use or display it.
v
(idiomatic) To be voted out, evicted, or otherwise made to leave.
v
(idiomatic, slang, Britain, Ireland) To dismiss someone from employment; to fire or make redundant.
v
(informal) To fire (dismiss from employment)
v
(intransitive) (chiefly UK, of epoxy resins) To cure; to set.
v
(informal, sports) To retire from or stop playing a field sport.
v
(transitive) To dismiss; to expel; to remove from a position.
v
(transitive) To release; to put onto the market for sale
v
To surrender or resign, especially in a military context.
n
An act of taking off; specifically, the taking away or purchase of goods.
v
(intransitive) To exit out of a defined zone.
n
That which is sent out; a deliverable.
v
(transitive) To get rid of (something or someone unwanted) by transferring it to another.
v
(of a vehicle) To begin moving and then move away; to pull away.
v
(transitive, idiomatic) To save from impending failure, destruction, or defeat.
v
To force (someone) to leave a group.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To send (someone) out, remove (someone) from a place.
v
(intransitive) To go out, to head out, especially (sailing) to set sail.
v
(finance) To eliminate the middlemen in a circular pattern of transactions.
n
A person who sacks or fires (dismisses someone from a job or position).
v
(idiomatic, transitive) To dismiss from one's presence.
v
(idiomatic) To expel, eject, or dismiss someone; to send away, chase off, or force out.
v
(idiomatic, by extension) To remove or expel someone from a job, position, or activity, especially because of poor behavior or performance.
v
(transitive, US, slang) To put in prison.
v
(idiomatic, transitive) To cause to explode, let off.
v
(transitive, figuratively) To get rid of, expel, or discard.
v
To remove from something or to have one's place taken, especially in sports.
v
(transitive, archaic) To swallow.
v
(idiomatic) To give lightly, in an offhand manner.
v
To never release someone (e.g., from prison).
v
(idiomatic) To confuse; especially, to lose a pursuer.
v
(idiomatic) To dismiss or expel someone from any longer performing duty or attending somewhere.
v
(transitive, idiomatic) To refuse service or shelter; to eject or evict.
v
(transitive, chiefly television) To exclude (a character in a TV show, etc.) by writing the script so as to explain their disappearance (through death, moving away, etc.).
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