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remitverb to grow less in scope or intensity especially graduallywaited until the rain remitted a little and ran to the car abate, de-escalate, decline, decrease, 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, shrink, subside, taper, taper off, wane compress, condense, constrict, contractevaporate, fade (away), fritter (away), give out, melt (away), peter (out), tail (off), vanishslacken, slow (down)alleviate, relaxflag, sink, weakencave (in), collapse, deflate accumulate, balloon, build, burgeon(also bourgeon), enlarge, escalate, expand, grow, increase, intensify, mount, mushroom, pick up, rise, snowball, soar, swell, wax appear, emerge, show upblow up, distend, elongate, lengthen to dismiss as of little importancethe judge refused to remit the young man's cavalier disregard for his pile of unpaid speeding tickets and summarily revoked his driver's license blink (at), brush (aside or off), condone, discount, disregard, excuse, forgive, gloss (over), gloze (over), ignore, overlook, overpass, paper over, pardon, pass over, shrug off, whitewash, wink (at) explain, justify, rationalizeabsolve, acquit, clear, exculpate, exonerate, vindicatewaive, wave (aside or off) close one's eyes to, forgive and forget heed, mark, mind, note, object (to) to assign to a later timethe legislature has remitted the matter to the next session, where it will most likely die in committee defer, delay, hold off (on), hold over, hold up, lay over, postpone, put off, put over, shelve suspendhesitate, pause, staydetain, retard, slowextend, lengthen, prolong, protract, stretch (out)wait act, deal (with), decide (upon), do, work (on) in the 14th century |