remit

remit is a 5-letter English word with 18 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To send back; to give up; to surrender; to resign. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 8 · 18 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To send back; to give up; to surrender; to resign.
2. transitive verb. To restore.
3. transitive verb. To transmit or send, esp. to a distance, as money in payment of a demand, account, draft, etc.; as, he remitted the amount by mail.
4. transitive verb. To send off or away; hence: (a) To refer or direct (one) for information, guidance, help, etc. "Remitting them . . . to the works of Galen." Sir T. Elyot. (b) To submit, refer, or leave (something) for judgment or decision.
5. transitive verb. To relax in intensity; to make less violent; to abate.
6. transitive verb. To forgive; to pardon; to remove.
7. transitive verb. To refrain from exacting or enforcing; as, to remit the performance of an obligation.
8. intransitive verb. To abate in force or in violence; to grow less intense; to become moderated; to abate; to relax; as, a fever remits; the severity of the weather remits.
9. intransitive verb. To send money, as in payment.
10. noun. (law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court)

    Synonyms: remission, remitment

11. noun. the topic that a person, committee, or piece of research is expected to deal with or has authority to deal with

    "they set up a group with a remit to suggest ways for strengthening family life"

12. verb. diminish or abate

    "The pain finally remitted"

13. verb. make slack as by lessening tension or firmness

    Synonyms: slacken

14. verb. forgive

    "God will remit their sins"

15. verb. refer (a matter or legal case) to another committee or authority or court for decision

    Synonyms: remand

16. verb. release from (claims, debts, or taxes)

    "The taxes were remitted"

17. verb. send (money) in payment

    "remit $25"

18. verb. hold back to a later time

    "let's postpone the exam"

    Synonyms: defer, postpone, prorogue, shelve, table

Synonyms

remission, remitment, slacken, remand, defer, postpone, prorogue, shelve, table

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in remit:

ermit, merit, miter, mitre, timer

Common word forms

remits, remital, remitted, remitter, remitment, remitting

Words from these letters

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