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- verb transitive To cause to
explode . - verb transitive, idiomatic To
forgive and notpunish .
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synonyms (125)
Words with the same meaning
- absolve
- acquit
- amnesty
- backfire
- blast
- blow out
- blow up
- burst
- bust
- cast loose
- charge
- charter
- chartered
- clear
- cock
- decontaminate
- demobilize
- destigmatize
- detonate
- discharge
- dismiss
- dispense
- dispense from
- dispense with
- drop
- eject
- except
- excepted
- exculpate
- excuse
- excused
- exempt
- exempt from
- exempted
- exonerate
- explode
- farm
- farm out
- favored
- fell
- fire
- fire off
- forgive
- free
- fulminate
- give absolution
- give dispensation from
- go bail for
- go off
- grant amnesty to
- grant bail to
- grant immunity
- grant remission
- gun
- gun for
- hire
- hire out
- hit
- immune
- irresponsible
- job
- justify
- lease
- lease out
- lease-back
- lease-lend
- lend-lease
- let
- let fly
- let go
- let go free
- let loose
- let out
- licensed
- load
- nonpros
- pardon
- parole
- pelt
- pepper
- permitted
- pick off
- pistol
- plug
- pot
- potshoot
- potshot
- prime
- privileged
- purge
- put on parole
- quash the charge
- release
- released
- relieve
- remise
- remit
- rent
- rent out
- riddle
- save the necessity
- set free
- set off
- shoot
- shoot at
- shoot down
- shrive
- snipe
- spare
- spared
- strike
- sublease
- sublet
- take a potshot
- torpedo
- touch off
- unaccountable
- unanswerable
- underlet
- unhand
- unliable
- unsubject
- vindicate
- whitewash
- withdraw the charge
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