remit

remit
v
1. forward, transmit, send, dispatch; pay, make payment, discharge; remunerate, recompense, reimburse, compensate; settle, pay off or up, pay in full, liquidate.
2. respite, reprieve, stay, grant a stay of execution, interrupt, stem, check, hold up; arrest, stop, brake, halt, desist, cease; forbear, spare, judge with leniency or clemency, be easy on, give a light sentence, refrain, hold back.
3. exonerate, release, free, set free, let off, Inf. let off the hook, Inf. let out of, liberate, emancipate, deliver, Obs. vindicate; exempt, except, make an exception, Rom. Cath. Ch. dispense; continue, grant an extension, Finance. extend, Commerce. indulge; waive, abolish, do away with, cancel, void, nullify, delete, erase, clear the books, wipe the slate clean.
4. pardon, amnesty, excuse, forgive, absolve, shrive, condone, overlook, make allowances for, pass over, wink at; disregard, dispense with, forget, forgive and forget, let bygones be bygones, not give the matter a second thought; ignore, look the other way, pay no attention to.
5. relax, slacken, loosen up, ease up or off, grant a breathing spell, Archaic. slake; mitigate, assuage, allay, alleviate, relieve, palliate, commute; mollify, moderate, modify, temper, subdue, chasten, soften, weaken, tone down; quell, quiet, tranquilize, calm, soothe, hush, still, deaden; abate, subside, recede, ebb, lull, decrease, decline, sink; diminish, lessen, lighten, attenuate, wane; reduce, contract, shrink, dwindle, fall off; yield, submit, give in, surrender, give up.
6. return, give back, send back, remand; replace, put back, reinstate, make restitution; rectify, redress, make amends, correct, make or set or put right; restore, recondition, repair, mend, renew, renovate, refurbish; rebuild, reconstruct, reconstitute, remodel, remake, make over, recreate.
7. postpone, defer, prorogue, suspend, intermit, put off, stave off, shelve, reschedule; delay, stall, wait, hold off, procrastinate.

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  • Remit — Re*mit (r? m?t ), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Remitted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Remitting}.] [L. remittere, remissum, to send back, to slacken, relax; pref. re re + mittere to send. See {Mission}, and cf. {Remise}, {Remiss}.] 1. To send back; to give up; to… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • remit to — [phrasal verb] remit (something) to (someone or something) : to send (something, such as a dispute or a court case) to an authority that can make a decision about it often used as (be) remitted to The matter was remitted to a new committee for… …   Useful english dictionary

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