transitive. To reject or turn away (a person); to exclude (a person) from a place, post, etc.

transitive. To put aside.

To say ‘no’ to, to refuse (a person who makes a request or demand); †to reject (a candidate).

transitive. To dismiss (a person) from some relation to oneself; to cast (someone) off, eject, exclude, debar. Also with from. Obsolete.

transitive. To send back or away; to reject, repulse. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To cast off, disown (a person or thing previously claimed as one's own or associated with oneself).

Used in many phrases and idiomatic expressions merely as a variant (more emphatic or expressive of greater violence) of throw or cast (see esp. cast…

transitive. To repudiate, cast off, disown (a person). Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To refuse to admit or accept (a person) as a member or appointee.

In figurative phrases. to tie the hands of: to deprive of freedom of action. to tie the knot: to effect a union between two persons or things; esp.…

British colloquial. to give (a person) the elbow: to dismiss or reject (a person), esp. insensitively or unceremoniously; to break off a…

(Without prep.) To dismiss, reject, repudiate (esp. a person). Australian and New Zealand slang.