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absolveab‧solve /əbˈzɒlv $ -ɑːlv/ verb [transitive] absolveOrigin: 1400-1500 Latin absolvere, from ab- ‘away’ + solvere ‘to loosen’ VERB TABLEabsolve |
Present | I, you, we, they | absolve | | he, she, it | absolves | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | absolved | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have absolved | | he, she, it | has absolved | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had absolved | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will absolve | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have absolved |
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Present | I | am absolving | | he, she, it | is absolving | | you, we, they | are absolving | Past | I, he, she, it | was absolving | | you, we, they | were absolving | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been absolving | | he, she, it | has been absolving | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been absolving | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be absolving | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been absolving |
- But now all of us have been absolved of ever considering it again.
- But there may be cases where the landlord absolves his tenant from performance in ways which release the other covenantors.
- For all that, the teacher can hardly be absolved from the attempt to clarify his own mind.
- For Jason is proving, albeit from his grave, that death does not absolve bias.
- He had provided a father-confessor figure to absolve the youngster's sins and absorb his phobias.
- Oppenheimer seems to have absolved himself for lack of special expertise in ethics.
NOUN► responsibility· Everyone but his father; whose condition, whose very nature absolved him of responsibility. 1to say publicly that someone is not guilty or responsible for somethingabsolve somebody from/of something He cannot be absolved of all responsibility for the accident.2if someone is absolved by the Christian Church or a priest for something they have done wrong, they are formally forgiven → absolutionGRAMMAR Absolve is often passive in this meaning. |