cold-shoulder, slight - pay no attention to, disrespect; "She cold-shouldered her ex-fiance"

reject - refuse to accept or acknowledge; "I reject the idea of starting a war"; "The journal rejected the student's paper"

discredit - cause to be distrusted or disbelieved; "The paper discredited the politician with its nasty commentary"

shrug off - minimize the importance of, brush aside; "Jane shrugged off the news that her stock had fallen 3 points"

pass off - disregard; "She passed off the insult"

flout, scoff - treat with contemptuous disregard; "flout the rules"

turn a blind eye - refuse to acknowledge; "He turns a blind eye to the injustices in his office"

laugh away, laugh off - deal with a problem by laughing or pretending to be amused by it; "She laughs away all these problems"

disoblige - ignore someone's wishes

give notice, give the axe, give the sack, sack, send away, can, force out, dismiss, fire, terminate - terminate the employment of; "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers"

drop - terminate an association with; "drop him from the Republican ticket"

retire - make (someone) retire; "The director was retired after the scandal"

pension off - let go from employment with an attractive pension; "The director was pensioned off when he got senile"

clean out - force out; "The new boss cleaned out the lazy workers"

furlough, lay off - dismiss, usually for economic reasons; "She was laid off together with hundreds of other workers when the company downsized"

squeeze out - force out; "Some employees were squeezed out by the recent budget cuts"

remove - remove from a position or an office

send away, send packing, dismiss, drop - stop associating with; "They dropped her after she had a child out of wedlock"

say farewell - say good-bye or bid farewell

alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue"

dissolve, break up - bring the association of to an end or cause to break up; "The decree officially dissolved the marriage"; "the judge dissolved the tobacco company"