Remit

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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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