Hyphenation of dismiss

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word dismiss? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

dis-miss

Definitions of dismiss:

1.	Bar from attention or consideration She dismissed his advances
2.	Cease to consider Put out of judicial consideration This case is dismissed!
3.	Stop associating with They dropped her after she had a child out of wedlock
4.	Terminate the employment of Discharge from an office or position The boss fired his secretary today The company terminated 25% of its workers
5.	End one's encounter with somebody by causing or permitting the person to leave I was dismissed after I gave my report
6.	Declare void The President dissolved the parliament and called for new elections

Synonyms of dismiss:

verb	disregard, brush aside, brush off, discount, push aside, ignore, reject
verb	throw out
verb	send packing, send away, drop, fire, give notice, can, give the axe, send away, sack, force out, give the sack, terminate
verb	fire, give notice, can, give the axe, send away, sack, force out, give the sack, terminate, remove
verb	usher out, say farewell
verb	dissolve, change, alter, modify

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.