absolve
verbTo release someone from blame, responsibility, or an obligation.
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Clear all filtersTo release someone from blame, responsibility, or an obligation.
To officially recognize a person or organization as meeting particular standards.
To accept or agree without active resistance, often reluctantly.
To inform someone of something.
To contradict an appearance or suggest that something is misleading.
To give or confer something, often as an honor.
To stop resisting and accept another side's demands.
To accept or allow conduct despite recognizing it as wrong.
Permission or voluntary agreement to something proposed.
Voluntary permission or agreement
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To postpone something, or to yield to another person's judgment or priority.
Yield to another's judgment
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A conversation or exchange of ideas between two or more participants.
A person or thing that gives a clear, concrete expression to an idea or quality.
Concrete expression of a quality
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To give a concrete form to an idea or represent it fully.
To cause a feeling, situation, or condition to arise.
Cause to arise
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To use ambiguous or evasive language to avoid a clear commitment.
The use of ambiguous or evasive language to avoid a clear statement.
To show or reveal a quality or feeling clearly.
Show a quality
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To abandon or give up.
Uncalled for or without adequate reason; also given without charge.
Uncalled for
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To destroy, especially by fire, or offer as a sacrifice.
To communicate information or provide a particular quality to something.
Convey or give
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To suggest or communicate something indirectly.
To suggest something indirectly, often something unfavorable.
To make something known indirectly or discreetly.
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