Usually means: Ceased to feel resentment for.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. forgave: Merriam-Webster
  2. forgave: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. forgave: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. forgave: Collins English Dictionary
  5. forgave: Vocabulary.com
  6. Forgave, forgave: Wordnik
  7. forgave: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. forgave: Wiktionary
  9. forgave: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. forgave: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. forgave: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Forgave, forgave: Dictionary.com
  13. forgave: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Forgave: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. forgave: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. Forgave: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. forgave: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. forgave: FreeDictionary.org
  19. forgave: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. forgave: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  21. forgave: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. forgave: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. forgave: Idioms

(Note: See forgive as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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.
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