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(obsolete, transitive) To desist in practicing, using, or doing; to renounce.
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(transitive) To no longer exercise a right, title, or interest, especially with no interest of reclaiming it again; to yield; to relinquish.
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(transitive, intransitive, law, chiefly historical) To enter upon and unlawfully seize (land) after the owner has died, thus preventing an heir from taking possession of it.
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(transitive, obsolete) To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit.
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(transitive, obsolete, historical) To cause one to renounce or recant.
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(chiefly historical, England law) To swear to leave the realm as soon as possible and not return without the permission of the sovereign.
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(transitive) To relinquish; to surrender; to abjure.
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To end a law, system, institution, custom or practice.
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(transitive, obsolete) To renounce; to contradict.
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(transitive, law) To annul by an authoritative act; to abolish by the authority of the maker or her or his successor; to repeal; — applied to the repeal of laws, decrees, ordinances, the abolition of customs, etc.
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obsolete typography of absolve [(transitive) To set free, release or discharge (from obligations, debts, responsibility etc.).]
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(archaic) To pay the penalty for (something); to atone for, to make amends.
n
(obsolete) The dismissal of a legal charge against someone; acquittal.
n
One who acquits or releases.
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(law) Followed by from or of: to acquit (someone) from a criminal charge; to find (someone) not guilty; to clear.
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(transitive, obsolete) To deny; abjure; renounce.
v
(transitive, now law) To make void, to annul; to refute (especially a contract).
n
A failure that leads to further misfortune.
n
(obsolete) Disposal; control; licence.
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(transitive, obsolete) To deprive (of).
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(transitive) To place on a blacklist; to mark a person or entity as one to be shunned or banned.
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(intransitive) To surrender; to end all resistance, to give up; to go along with or comply.
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One who rejects, discards, or dismisses.
adj
(obsolete) Confiscated; seized and appropriated by the government for public use; forfeit.
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(US, law, transitive) To void; to annul.
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(transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To prohibit, forbid.
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(obsolete) To settle, decide (an argument etc.)
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(law, transitive) To withhold land unlawfully from its true owner or from any other person who has a right to the possession of it, after one has lawfully entered and taken possession of it.
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(transitive, obsolete) To renounce or dissolve all bonds of affiance, faith, or obligation with; to reject, refuse, or renounce.
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Obsolete form of deliverance. [The act of setting free or extricating from danger, imprisonment, bondage, evil, etc.]
n
Obsolete form of deliverance. [The act of setting free or extricating from danger, imprisonment, bondage, evil, etc.]
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(sometimes after the noun modified) Having resigned or been removed from a position, but retaining some status or powers.
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(transitive, intransitive) To revoke one's pledge of allegiance to a college fraternity.
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to abandon or desert, to leave to itself
n
The act of desisting, especially desisting from criminal activity.
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(transitive, archaic) To betroth.
v
(law, intransitive) To be taken away, lost, or alienated, as a title or an estate.
v
Obsolete form of divorce. [(transitive) To legally dissolve a marriage between two people.]
v
to consign over; to doom
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(obsolete) To disavow; to disclaim.
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(obsolete, intransitive) To yield or give up; to depart.
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(law) To relinquish or deny having a claim; to disavow another's claim; to decline accepting, as an estate, interest, or office.
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(transitive, informal) To disclaim or disavow, as by appending a legal disclaimer.
n
One who discontinues, or breaks off or away from; an absentee.
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(transitive) To dissolve a covenant with.
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(obsolete, rare) To give up, renounce.
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Alternative spelling of disseize. [(law) To deprive of seizin or possession; to dispossess or oust wrongfully (one in freehold possession of land).]
n
Alternative form of disseizee [(law) One who is disseized, or put out of possession of an estate unlawfully.]
n
(law) The act of disseizing.
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(law) To deprive of seizin or possession; to dispossess or oust wrongfully (one in freehold possession of land).
n
(law) The act of disseizing; an act of unlawful dispossessing, especially of someone's lands.
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(transitive) To end one's own marriage to (a person) in this way.
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Alternative form of essoin [(UK, law, transitive) To excuse for failure to appear in court.]
n
(law) A destructive kind of waste committed by a tenant for life, in lands, woods, or houses.
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To impose an excise tax on something.
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(transitive) To officially exclude someone from membership of a church or religious community.
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(obsolete, transitive) To decipher.
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(transitive) To wind up, bring to an end.
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(transitive) To deprive a person of (their private property) for public use.
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(transitive, obsolete) To defy; to challenge.
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To fail to keep an obligation.
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The act of one who forswears.
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(transitive, law) To dismiss or throw out (a protest or objection) at a court.
v
To settle old grudges by taking revenge.
v
(transitive) To banish or exclude.
v
(intransitive, of a judge) To refuse to act as a judge; to declare oneself disqualified from acting.
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(law) To free (someone) from debt or legal obligations; to give legal relief to.
v
Alternative form of renege [(intransitive) To break a promise or commitment; to go back on one's word.]
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Alternative form of renege [(intransitive) To break a promise or commitment; to go back on one's word.]
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(intransitive) To break a promise or commitment; to go back on one's word.
v
Alternative form of renege [(intransitive) To break a promise or commitment; to go back on one's word.]
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(US, colloquial, dated) To renege.
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(transitive) To give up, resign, surrender.
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(transitive) To bring relief to someone.
n
A written or oral declaration that one resigns.
n
(Canada law) The act of cancelling, annulling or drawing back from (a contract).
v
(transitive) To take revenge for (a particular harmful action) or on behalf of (its victim); to avenge.
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(transitive, rare, obsolete) To give up; surrender
n
The act of being rid of something; deliverance
n
(obsolete) The act of setting aside or giving up.
v
To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.
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(law) to invalidate (a law, statute etc.)
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(US, law) To forbid the use of evidence at trial because it is improper or was improperly obtained.
v
(idiomatic) To quit or cease completely, or to promise to quit, as a bad habit.
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(rare) To rescind one's abdication.
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(transitive) To give up (someone or something previously adopted).
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(transitive) To take from private possession; to restore to the possession or right of all.
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(transitive) To cancel one's claim to.
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(obsolete, transitive) To be without, or to resign, possession of.
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(transitive, rare, obsolete) To forsake.
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(transitive, obsolete, poetic, Scottish law) To give up or yield up.
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(law) To have a court judgement set aside; to annul.
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(transitive) To use a veto against.
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(transitive, obsolete) To avenge; to punish
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(obsolete, derogatory, transitive) To baptize.
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(particularly) To relinquish claim on a payment or fee which would otherwise be due.
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Obsolete form of waive. [(transitive, law) To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forgo.]
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Obsolete form of waive. [(transitive, law) To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forgo.]
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