Forgive

What do we mean by forgive?

To give up resentment against or stop wanting to punish (someone) for an offense or fault; pardon. intransitive verb

To relent in being angry or in wishing to exact punishment for (an offense or fault). intransitive verb

To absolve from payment of (a debt, for example). intransitive verb

To grant forgiveness. intransitive verb

To give up; resign.

To give; grant.

To grant free pardon for or remission of, as a wrongful act or an obligation; give up all claims for or on account of: sometimes with the thing forgiven as direct objective (accusative), preceded by the person as indirect objective (dative): as, to forgive an injury; to forgive a person his debts.

To grant free pardon to; cease to blame or feel resentment against; restore to good will.

Synonyms To pass over, overlook.

Pardon, Forgive (see pardon); to excuse, let off.

To exercise forgiveness; be lenient or forgiving.

To give wholly; to make over without reservation; to resign. transitive verb

To give up resentment or claim to requital on account of (an offense or wrong); to remit the penalty of; to pardon; -- said in reference to the act forgiven. transitive verb

To cease to feel resentment against, on account of wrong committed; to give up claim to requital from or retribution upon (an offender); to absolve; to pardon; -- said of the person offending. transitive verb

To pardon, to waive any negative feeling or desire for punishment. verb

To accord forgiveness. verb

Absolve from payment verb

Stop blaming or grant forgiveness verb

To pardon; to waive any negative feeling or desire for punishment, retribution, or compensation.

To accord forgiveness.

Words that are spelled similarly to forgive:
forgive, forgave, forgie.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word forgive:
sins, forgiven, forgiveness, transgressions, forget, forgiving, infidelity, temptation, thee, betrayal, reconcile, debts, sin, mistakes, guilt, debt, loves, myself, agrees, hurt, deliver, dies, tells, you, your, asks, anger, revenge, ask, marry, prayer, divorce, god, telling, wrong, enemies, wants, our, pregnant, everything, evil, know, breaks, herself, returns, let, feelings, loved, knowing, knows, affair, decide, wedding, jesus, anyone, everyone, pain, truth, actions, tries, leaves, says, done, kill, love, happy, relationship, heart, killing, crimes, goes, moves, himself.

Words that rhyme with forgive:
give, live, sieve, combative, liv, relive, outlive, viv, determinative, corroborative, misgive, ziv.

Adjectives that are often used to describe forgive:
why.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective forgive:
others, them, everyone, sins, everything, people, yourself, injuries, pencil, debtors, failure, debts, madam, those, trespasses, haste, nothing, everybody, forgiveness, mel, her, lord, malice, offences, inconvenience, clare, divine, delay, one, offenses, ness, roe, mistakes, grief, steve, brevity, enemy, this, enemies, injustice, farewell, self, sir, idiotcy, patient, thee, scrawling, country, god, someone, means, israel, brother, imperence.

Consonant match to forgive:
forgave.

Words that sound like forgive:
forgive, forgave, forgives, forgiver, argive, free of, furtive, fergie, forget, fergus, furca, frgs, forgot, forgiven, forgiving, frying, freeing, forgive me, ferg, fraying, fogging, fring, frigging, frogging, furring, fragging, fritch, frg, forgat, fagging, furg, forgetive, froing, fritsch, furrowing, ferko, figging, fritsche, fritzsche, firring, archiv, ferv, fgv, fugging, archive, argives, forever, freya, figga, fra, frigga, figa, fof, fria, fergal, fev, fraga, free love, freelove, freia, fergon, fga, fref, phra, fuego, five, fave, fav, fargo, faget, fiv, figi, figgy, faggy, fictive, firkin, fgo, figo, feve, fauve, arga, foggie, firk, ferch, ferk, faroff, farang, fego, firry, factive, fair go, fgay, -free, fecking, arev, ferc, fergana, ferning, ferghana, foggia.