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remittingverbpresent participle of remit to grow less in scope or intensity especially graduallywaited until the rain remitted a little and ran to the car abating, declining, decreasing, de-escalating, diminishing, draining (away), dropping (off), dwindling, dying (away or down or out), easing, ebbing, falling, falling away, lessening, letting up, lowering, moderating, palling, phasing down, ratcheting (down)also racheting (down), receding, relenting, shrinking, subsiding, tapering, tapering off, waning compressing, condensing, constricting, contractingevaporating, fading (away), frittering (away), giving out, melting (away), petering (out), tailing (off), vanishingslackening, slowing (down)alleviating, relaxingflagging, sinking, weakeningcaving (in), collapsing, deflating accumulating, ballooning, building, burgeoning(also bourgeoning), enlarging, escalating, expanding, growing, increasing, intensifying, mounting, mushrooming, picking up, rising, snowballing, soaring, swelling, waxing appearing, emerging, showing upblowing up, distending, elongating, lengthening 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 blinking (at), brushing (aside or off), condoning, discounting, disregarding, excusing, forgiving, glossing (over), glozing (over), ignoring, overlooking, overpassing, papering over, pardoning, passing over, shrugging off, whitewashing, winking (at) explaining, justifying, rationalizingabsolving, acquitting, clearing, exculpating, exonerating, vindicatingwaiving, waving (aside or off) closing one's eyes to, forgiving and forgetting heeding, marking, minding, noting, objecting (to) to assign to a later timethe legislature has remitted the matter to the next session, where it will most likely die in committee deferring, delaying, holding off (on), holding over, holding up, laying over, postponing, putting off, putting over, shelving suspendinghesitating, pausing, stayingdetaining, retarding, slowingextending, lengthening, prolonging, protracting, stretching (out)waiting acting, dealing (with), deciding (upon), doing, working (on) |