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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: bar from attention or consideration; "She dismissed his advances" [syn: dismiss, disregard, brush aside, brush off, discount, push aside, ignore]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

or brush away If you brush aside or brush away an idea, remark, or feeling, you refuse to consider it because you think it is not important or useful, even though it may be. Perhaps you shouldn't brush the idea aside too hastily... He brushed away my views on politics. = dismiss PHRASAL VERB: V n P, V P n (not pron)

Moby Thesaurus

abandon, abjure, brush off, chuck, chuck out, contemn, contradict, decline, deny, despise, disapprove, discard, disclaim, discount, disdain, dismiss, disown, disregard, drop the subject, except, exclude, forget, forget about it, forget it, forswear, ignore, lay aside, let it go, let slip, pass by, pass up, push aside, put aside, rebuff, recant, refuse, refuse to consider, reject, renounce, repel, repudiate, repulse, scout, set aside, shove away, shrug off, sneeze at, spurn, think nothing of, throw away, throw out, thrust aside, turn away, turn away from, turn out, waive