Definitions for absolve

absolve ab·solve

Spelling: [ab-zolv, -solv]
IPA: /æbˈzɒlv, -ˈsɒlv/

Absolve is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 216 anagrams from letters in absolve (abelosv).

Definitions for absolve

verb (used with object)

  1. to free from guilt or blame or their consequences:
  2. to set free or release, as from some duty, obligation, or responsibility (usually followed by from):
  3. to grant pardon for.
  4. Ecclesiastical. to grant or pronounce remission of sins to. to remit (a sin) by absolution. to declare (censure, as excommunication) removed.

Origin of absolve

1525-35; Latin absolvere, equivalent to ab- ab- + solvere to loosen; see solve

Examples for absolve

That would be to absolve him from living, since it is life itself that is the burden.

Many were just eager to forget, absolve, or overlook serious accusations, simply because doing so would be hugely convenient.

Were I to be queen of the universe, that dignity should not absolve me from my duty to you and to my father.

But I may also neglect this reflex standard and absolve me to myself.

On the one hand, he is trying to absolve Skyler of his sins.

Will they absolve him of stealing papal documents and leaking them to the press, and let him go?

There is no suggestion here that religion will absolve any man from bearing burdens.

absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.

Social media, Sharif emphasized, has been an indispensable tool for Saudi women “to absolve the gender apartheid.”

Yet the essay does not absolve the Left from paranoid thinking.

Word Value for absolve
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

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