First Known Use: 14th century
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1remit
verb re·mit \ri-ˈmit\
: to send (money) as a payment
: to cancel or free someone from (a punishment, debt, etc.)
re·mit·tedre·mit·ting
Full Definition of REMIT
transitive verb
1
a : to lay aside (a mood or disposition) partly or wholly b : to desist from (an activity) c : to let (as attention or diligence) slacken : relax
2
a : to release from the guilt or penalty of <remit sins> b : to refrain from exacting <remit a tax> c : to cancel or refrain from inflicting <remit the penalty> d : to give relief from (suffering)
3
: to submit or refer for consideration, judgment, decision, or action; specifically : remand
4
: to restore or consign to a former status or condition
6
: to send (money) to a person or place especially in payment of a demand, account, or draft
intransitive verb
1
2
: to send money (as in payment)
— re·mit·ment \-ˈmit-mənt\ noun
— re·mit·ta·ble \-ˈmi-tə-bəl\ adjective
— re·mit·ter noun
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Examples of REMIT
- A patient who has mild flare-ups in the skin and joints twice a year may one day awaken with kidney failure or paralysis that, one month later, mysteriously remits. —Elizabeth Rosenthal, New York Times Book Review, 19 Nov. 1989
- And he was, therefore, as little surprised as a man could be, to find himself awakened at the small inn to which he had been remitted until morning, in the middle of the night. —Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, 1859
- I was brought in guilty and sentenced to die; but that the judges, having been made sensible of the hardship of my circumstances, had obtained leave to remit the sentence upon my consenting to be transported. —Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders, 1722
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Origin of REMIT
Middle English remitten, from Latin remittere to send back, from re- + mittere to send
Related to REMIT
- Synonyms
- abate, decline, de-escalate, die (away or down or out), diminish, drain (away), drop (off), dwindle, ease, ebb, fall, fall away, lessen, let up, lower, moderate, pall, phase down, ratchet (down) also rachet (down), recede, relent, decrease, shrink, subside, taper, taper off, wane
Rhymes with REMIT
a bit, acquit, admit, armpit, backfit, base hit, befit, bowsprit, bushtit, catch it, cesspit, close-knit, cockpit, commit, cool it, culprit, cut it, demit, dimwit, dog it, do it, emit, firelit, fleapit, gaslit, get it, gill slit, godwit, hack it, half-wit, hard-hit, henbit, house-sit, legit, lit crit, make it, mess kit, misfit, mishit, moonlit, mosh pit, nitwit, no-hit, obit, omit, outfit, outwit, owe it, peewit, permit, pinch-hit, Prakrit, press kit, pulpit, refit, rough it, sandpit, Sanskrit, scratch hit, snakebit, snake pit, starlit, stock split, submit, sunlit, switch-hit, tar pit, tidbit, tight-knit, tomtit, to wit, transmit, turnspit, twilit, two-bit, unfit, unknit, warp knit, watch it, weft knit, well-knit
2remit
noun re·mit \ri-ˈmit, ˈrē-ˌ\
: an area of responsibility and authority
Full Definition of REMIT
2
: something remitted to another person or authority
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Origin of REMIT
(see 1remit)
First Known Use: 15th century
REMITTED Defined for Kids
remit
verb re·mit \ri-ˈmit\
re·mit·tedre·mit·ting
Medical Dictionary
remit
intransitive verb re·mit \ri-ˈmit\
re·mit·tedre·mit·ting
Medical Definition of REMIT
: to abate symptoms for a period : go into or be in remission <her leukemia remitted for a year>
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