Is there a verb for the inverse of greet, or a synonym verb for greet that has an inverse verb? Everything I can think of is a verb phrase, exclamation, or noun. Salute is the closest I could find, but it's applicable to arriving and departing.
For context, I’m writing a hello world example of a class and would like to add a method for the inverse of greet to the class to show classes are collections of attributes and behaviors. As a behavior, the method name should be a verb or start with one.
Answer
The single-word verbal opposite of greet (as in a host welcoming guests) is dismiss:
1 : to permit or cause to leave
// dismiss the visitors
// Class is dismissed.
In your case, the function name could be dismiss().
To add to this, Hello, world! would be what was said at greeting, and, for example, Goodbye, world! would be what was said at dismissal.
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