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.
Definitions
- transitive verb. The act of pardoning; forgiveness, as of an offender, or of an offense; release from penalty; remission of punishment; absolution.
- transitive verb. An official warrant of remission of penalty.
- transitive verb. The state of being forgiven.
- transitive 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.
- transitive verb. To absolve from the consequences of a fault or the punishment of crime; to free from penalty; -- applied to the offender.
- transitive verb. To remit the penalty of; to suffer to pass without punishment; to forgive; -- applied to offenses.
- transitive verb. To refrain from exacting as a penalty.
- transitive verb. To give leave (of departure) to.
- noun. the act of excusing a mistake or offense
- noun. the formal act of liberating someone
- noun. a warrant granting release from punishment for an offense
- verb. grant a pardon to
"Ford pardoned Nixon"
"The Thanksgiving turkey was pardoned by the President"
- verb. accept an excuse for
"Please excuse my dirty hands"
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Other playable words that use exactly the letters in pardon:
Common word forms
pardons, pardoned, pardoner, pardoning, pardonable, pardonless
Words from these letters
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