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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To pronounce clear of guilt or blame.
  2. v. To relieve of a requirement or obligation.
  3. v. To grant a remission of sin to.
  4. v. To pardon or remit (a sin).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To set free or release, as from some duty, obligation, or responsibility.
  2. To free from the consequences or penalties attaching to actions; acquit; specifically, in eccles. language, to forgive or grant remission of sins; pronounce forgiveness of sins to.
  3. To accomplish; finish.
  4. To solve; resolve; explain.
  5. Synonyms To free, release, excuse, liberate, exempt. To acquit, excuse, clear, pardon, forgive, justify. See acquit.

Wiktionary

  1. v. transitive To pass a course or test; to gain credit for a class; to qualify academically.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To set free, or release, as from some obligation, debt, or responsibility, or from the consequences of guilt or such ties as it would be sin or guilt to violate; to pronounce free
  2. v. To free from a penalty; to pardon; to remit (a sin); -- said of the sin or guilt.
  3. v. obsolete To finish; to accomplish.
  4. v. obsolete To resolve or explain.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. let off the hook
  2. v. grant remission of a sin to

Etymologies

  1. First attested in the early 15th Century. From Middle English absolven, from Latin absolvere, present active infinitive of absolvō ("set free, acquit"), from ab ("away from") + solvō ("loosen, free, release"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English absolven, from Latin absolvere; see absolute. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (19)

Words with the same meaning

  1. exonerate
  2. acquit
  3. pardon
  1. finish
  2. accomplish
  3. free
  1. forgive
  2. clear
  3. assoil
  1. wash
  2. shrivel
  3. justify
  1. discharge
  2. exempt
  3. excuse
  1. release
  2. exculpate
  3. remit
  1. vindicate

antonyms (1)

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  1. punish

hypernyms (1)

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  1. forgive

rhymes (7)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. devolve
  1. dissolve
  1. evolve
  1. involve
  1. resolve
  1. revolve
  1. solve

reverse dictionary (26)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. wash one's hands
  2. absolv
  3. absolution
  4. acquit
  5. loose
  1. justify
  2. soil
  3. Neri
  4. assoilzie
  5. as
  1. assoil
  2. absolutory
  3. discharge
  4. dispense
  5. excuse
  1. forgive
  2. absolvatory
  3. shrift
  4. pardon
  5. penitentiary
  1. quit
  2. solute
  3. condemn
  4. exarch
  5. exonerate
  1. free

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