FORGIVE meaning: Release resentment, accept person's flaws

We found 32 dictionaries that define the word forgive:

General (28 matching dictionaries)

forgive: Merriam-Webster.com
forgive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
forgive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
forgive: Collins English Dictionary
forgive: Vocabulary.com
Forgive, forgive: Wordnik
forgive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
forgive: Wiktionary
forgive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
forgive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
forgive: Infoplease Dictionary
Forgive, forgive: Dictionary.com
forgive: Online Etymology Dictionary
forgive: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Forgive (The Following), Forgive (album), Forgive (song), Forgive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Forgive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
forgive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
forgive: Rhymezone
forgive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
forgive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
forgive: Free Dictionary
forgive: Mnemonic Dictionary
forgive: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
forgive: Dictionary/thesaurus
forgive: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
Forgive: Wordnik

Business (1 matching dictionary)

forgive: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

forgive: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

forgive: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

forgive: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ verb:  (transitive) To pardon (someone); to waive any negative feeling towards or desire for punishment or retribution against.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To pardon for (something); to waive any negative feeling over or retribution for.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To waive or remit (a debt), to absolve from payment or compensation of.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To accord forgiveness.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To look past; to look beyond.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To redeem; to offset the bad effects of something.

Opposite:

hold, a, grudge, resent, blame, condemn, harbor, ill, feelings

Types:

pardon, excuse, overlook, let go, forgive and forget, more...

Phrases:

forgive me, forgive and forget, to err is human, to forgive divine, to err is human to forgive divine, to forgive divine to err is human, more...

Colors:

lavender, mint green, peach, sky blue, lilac, ivory, baby blue, blush, periwinkle, pastel purple

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