单词 | forgive |
释义 | forgive (once / 93 pages) v If you forgive someone, you stop blaming him. You should really forgive your kid sister for eating the rest of the cake. Forgive comes from the Old English forgiefan, which also means "forgive," just with cooler spelling. When you forgive someone or something, that's the end of the story. Eventually, you will have to either forgive your friend for stealing your boyfriend, or stop being her friend. Loans can also be forgiven. If your credit card company forgives your debt, that means you no longer have to pay it. WORD FAMILYforgive: forgave, forgivable, forgiven, forgiver, forgives, forgiving+/forgivable: forgivably, unforgivable/forgiven: forgiveness/forgiveness: forgivenesses/forgiver: forgivers/forgiving: forgivingest, forgivingly, forgivingness, unforgiving/unforgivable: unforgivablest, unforgivably/unforgiving: unforgivingly USAGE EXAMPLESTell him you were upset your children were prevented from meeting their cousin and ask him to forgive you for your pettiness. Washington Post(Dec 22, 2016) “It’s about how we sometimes forgive the lunatic behaviour of artists and call it “eccentricity”. The Guardian(Jan 01, 2017) As news spread, more people started calling him a sellout for forgiving McGraw. Washington Post(Dec 31, 2016) 1v stop blaming or grant forgiveness I forgave him his infidelity She cannot forgive him for forgetting her birthday Hypo|Hyper condone, excuse excuse, overlook, or make allowances for; be lenient with absolve, free, justifylet off the hook absolve, shrivegrant remission of a sin to remitforgive pardongrant a pardon to excuse, pardonaccept an excuse for excuse, exempt, let off, relievegrant exemption or release to wash one's handsto absolve oneself of responsibility or future blame amnestygrant a pardon to (a group of people) concede, grant, yield be willing to concede 2v absolve from payment I forgive you your debt Hyper exempt, free, relieve grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to |
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