absolve

absolve has 6 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 7.

Definitions

• v. t.. 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; as, to absolve a subject from his allegiance; to absolve an offender, which amounts to an acquittal and remission of his punishment.
• v. t.. To free from a penalty; to pardon; to remit (a sin); -- said of the sin or guilt.
• v. t.. To finish; to accomplish.
• v. t.. To resolve or explain.
• v.. let off the hook; "I absolve you from this responsibility"
• v.. grant remission of a sin to; "The priest absolved him and told him to say ten Hail Mary's"