Usually means: Frees someone from blame, guilt.
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  1. absolves: Merriam-Webster
  2. absolves: Collins English Dictionary
  3. absolves: Vocabulary.com
  4. absolves: Wordnik
  5. absolves: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. absolves: Wiktionary
  7. absolves: Dictionary.com
  8. absolves: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. absolves: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. absolves: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. absolves: Legal dictionary

(Note: See absolve as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (absolve)

verb:  (transitive) To set free, release or discharge (from obligations, debts, responsibility etc.).
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To resolve; to explain; to solve.
verb:  (transitive) To pronounce free from or give absolution for a penalty, blame, or guilt.
verb:  (transitive, law) To pronounce not guilty; to grant a pardon for.
verb:  (transitive, theology) To grant a remission of sin; to give absolution to.
verb:  (transitive, theology) To remit a sin; to give absolution for a sin.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To finish; to accomplish.
verb:  (transitive) To pass a course or test; to gain credit for a class; to qualify academically.
▸ Also see absolve


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