1. Verb
To send back; to give up; to surrender; to resign.
2. Verb
To restore.
3. 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. 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. Verb
To relax in intensity; to make less violent; to abate.
6. Verb
To forgive; to pardon; to remove.
7. Verb
To refrain from exacting or enforcing; as, to remit the performance of an obligation.
8. 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. Verb
To send money, as in payment.
10. Verb
diminish or abate; "The pain finally remitted"
Vocabulary classified under Academic vocabulary
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"
Vocabulary classified under Medicine and healthcare
12. Noun
(law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court)
Vocabulary classified under Law
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