remission

remission is a 9-letter English word with 10 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of remitting, surrendering, resigning, or giving up. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 13 · 10 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The act of remitting, surrendering, resigning, or giving up.
2. noun. Discharge from that which is due; relinquishment of a claim, right, or obligation; pardon of transgression; release from forfeiture, penalty, debt, etc.
3. noun. Diminution of intensity; abatement; relaxation.
4. noun. A temporary and incomplete subsidence of the force or violence of a disease or of pain, as destinguished from intermission, in which the disease completely leaves the patient for a time; abatement.
5. noun. The act of sending back.
6. noun. Act of sending in payment, as money; remittance.
7. noun. the act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance

   Synonyms: absolution, remittal

8. noun. (law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court)

   Synonyms: remit, remitment

9. noun. an abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease)

   "his cancer is in remission"

   Synonyms: remittal, subsidence

10. noun. a payment of money sent to a person in another place

    Synonyms: remitment, remittal, remittance

Synonyms

absolution, remittal, remit, remitment, subsidence, remittance

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in remission:

missioner

Common word forms

remissions

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