Usually means: Absolve or cleanse from wrongdoing.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. assoil: Merriam-Webster
  2. assoil: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. assoil: Collins English Dictionary
  4. assoil: Vocabulary.com
  5. assoil: Wordnik
  6. assoil: Wiktionary
  7. assoil: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. assoil: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Assoil, assoil: Dictionary.com
  10. Assoil: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. assoil: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. assoil: Rhymezone
  13. Assoil: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. assoil: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. assoil: FreeDictionary.org
  16. assoil: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  17. assoil: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. assoil: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. assoil: Merriam-Webster

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. assoil: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. assoil: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. assoil: A Word A Day

(Note: See assoiling as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (assoil)

verb:  (archaic)
verb:  To absolve or release (someone) from blame or sin; to forgive, to pardon.
verb:  To atone or expiate for (something).
verb:  (law) Followed by from or of: to acquit (someone) from a criminal charge; to find (someone) not guilty; to clear.
verb:  (archaic or obsolete) Followed by from or of: to release or set free (someone) from a liability, an obligation, etc.; to discharge.
verb:  (obsolete)
verb:  To clear up or resolve (a difficulty, doubt, problem, etc.); to absolve, to solve.
verb:  To refute (an argument, an objection, etc.).
verb:  (rare) To discharge (a liability, an obligation, etc.).
verb:  (rare) To get rid of, put off, or remove (something).
verb:  (Christianity) To absolve or release (someone) from excommunication or some other religious offence.
verb:  (transitive, archaic or obsolete) To make (something) dirty or soiled; to soil; to stain; to sully.

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