Dictionary Entry
pardon
pardon is a 6-letter English word with 13 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of pardoning; forgiveness, as of an offender, or of an offense; release from penalty; remission of punishment; absolution. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 13 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
The act of pardoning; forgiveness, as of an offender, or of an offense; release from penalty; remission of punishment; absolution.
- 2transitive verb
An official warrant of remission of penalty.
- 3transitive verb
The state of being forgiven.
- 4transitive verb
A release, by a sovereign, or officer having jurisdiction, from the penalties of an offense, being distinguished from amenesty, which is a general obliteration and canceling of a particular line of past offenses.
- 5transitive verb
To absolve from the consequences of a fault or the punishment of crime; to free from penalty; -- applied to the offender.
- 6transitive verb
To remit the penalty of; to suffer to pass without punishment; to forgive; -- applied to offenses.
- 7transitive verb
To refrain from exacting as a penalty.
- 8transitive verb
To give leave (of departure) to.
- 9noun
the act of excusing a mistake or offense
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- 10noun
the formal act of liberating someone
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- 11noun
a warrant granting release from punishment for an offense
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- 12verb
grant a pardon to
"Ford pardoned Nixon"
"The Thanksgiving turkey was pardoned by the President"
- 13verb
accept an excuse for
"Please excuse my dirty hands"
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