pardon

  1. Noun.  Forgiveness for an offence.
  2. Noun.  (legal) An order that releases a convicted criminal without further punishment, prevents future punishment, or (in some jurisdictions) removes an offence from a person's criminal record, as if it had never been committed.
  3. Verb.  (transitive) To forgive.
  4. Verb.  (transitive, legal) To grant an official pardon for a crime; unguilt.
  5. Interjection.  (non-gloss definition, Often used when someone does not understand what another person says.) .

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