Synonyms of the word forgive


FORGIVECONCEDE - EXEMPT - FREE - GRANT - RELIEVE - YIELD

forgive

  • v. (transitive) To pardon, to waive any negative feeling or desire for punishment.
  • v. (intransitive) To accord forgiveness.

concede

  • v. To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant.
  • v. To grant, as a right or privilege; to make concession of.
  • v. To admit to be true; to acknowledge.
  • v. To yield or make concession.
  • v. (sports) To have a goal or point scored against.
  • v. (cricket) (of a bowler) to have runs scored off of one's bowling.

exempt

  • adj. Free from a duty or obligation.
  • adj. (of an employee or his position) Not entitled to overtime pay when working overtime.
  • adj. (obsolete) Cut off; set apart.
  • adj. (obsolete) Extraordinary; exceptional.
  • n. One who has been released from something.
  • n. (historical) A type of French police officer.
  • n. (Britain) One of four officers of the Yeomen of the Royal Guard, having the rank of corporal; an exon.
  • v. (transitive) To grant (someone) freedom or immunity from.

free

  • adj. (social) Unconstrained.
  • adj. Obtainable without any payment.
  • adj. (abstract) Unconstrained.
  • adj. (physical) Unconstrained.
  • adj. Without; not containing (what is specified); exempt; clear; liberated.
  • adj. (dated) Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping; spirited.
  • adj. (dated) Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying certain immunities or privileges; admitted…
  • adj. (Britain, law, obsolete) Certain or honourable; the opposite of base.
  • adj. (law) Privileged or individual; the opposite of common.
  • adv. Without needing to pay.
  • adv. (obsolete) Freely; willingly.
  • v. (transitive) To make free; set at liberty; release; rid of that which confines, limits, embarrasses, or…
  • n. (Australian rules football, Gaelic football) Abbreviation of free kick.
  • n. free transfer.
  • n. (hurling) The usual means of restarting play after a foul is committed, where the non-offending team restarts…

grant

  • v. To give over; to make conveyance of; to give the possession or title of; to convey; -- usually in answer…
  • v. To bestow or confer, with or without compensation, particularly in answer to prayer or request; to give.
  • v. To admit as true what is not yet satisfactorily proved; to yield belief to; to allow; to yield; to concede.
  • v. To assent; to consent.
  • n. The act of granting; a bestowing or conferring; concession; allowance; permission.
  • n. The yielding or admission of something in dispute.
  • n. The thing or property granted; a gift; a boon.
  • n. (law) A transfer of property by deed or writing; especially, an appropriation or conveyance made by the…
  • n. the deed or writing by which such a transfer is made.
  • n. (informal) An application for a grant (monetary boon to aid research or the like).

relieve

  • v. To ease (a person, person's thoughts etc.) from mental distress; to stop (someone) feeling anxious or…
  • v. To ease (someone, a part of the body etc.) or give relief from physical pain or discomfort.
  • v. To alleviate (pain, distress, mental discomfort etc.).
  • v. To provide comfort or assistance to (someone in need, especially in poverty).
  • v. (obsolete) To lift up; to raise again.
  • v. (now rare) To raise (someone) out of danger or from (a specified difficulty etc.).
  • v. (law) To free (someone) from debt or legal obligations; to give legal relief to.
  • v. To bring military help to (a besieged town); to lift the siege on.
  • v. To release (someone) from or of a difficulty, unwanted task, responsibility etc.
  • v. (military, job) To free (someone) from their post, task etc. by taking their place.
  • v. (now rare) To make (something) stand out; to make prominent, bring into relief.
  • v. (reflexive) To go to the toilet; to defecate or urinate.

yield

  • v. (obsolete) To pay, give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite.
  • v. To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth.
  • v. To give way; to allow another to pass first.
  • v. To give as required; to surrender, relinquish or capitulate.
  • v. (intransitive) To give way; to succumb to a force.
  • v. To produce as return, as from an investment.
  • v. (mathematics) To produce as a result.
  • v. (linguistics) To produce a particular sound as the result of a sound law.
  • v. (engineering, materials science, of a material specimen) To pass the material's yield point and undergo…
  • v. (rare) To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.
  • n. (obsolete) Payment; tribute.
  • n. A product; the quantity of something produced.
  • n. (law) The current return as a percentage of the price of a stock or bond.

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