remit

¹re·mit

verb \ri-ˈmit\

re·mit·tedre·mit·ting

Definition of REMIT

transitive verb

1

a : to lay aside (a mood or disposition) partly or wholly

b : to desist from (an activity)

c : to let (as attention or diligence) slacken : relax

2

a : to release from the guilt or penalty of <remit sins>

b : to refrain from exacting <remit a tax>

c : to cancel or refrain from inflicting <remit the penalty>

d : to give relief from (suffering)

3

: to submit or refer for consideration, judgment, decision, or action; specifically : remand

4

: to restore or consign to a former status or condition

5

: postpone, defer

6

: to send (money) to a person or place especially in payment of a demand, account, or draft

intransitive verb

1

a : to abate in force or intensity : moderate

b : to abate symptoms (as of a disease) for a period

2

: to send money (as in payment)

— re·mit·ment \-ˈmit-mənt\ noun

— re·mit·ta·ble \-ˈmi-tə-bəl\ adjective

— re·mit·ter noun

Examples of REMIT

1. Please remit $1,000 upon receipt of this letter.
2. Payment can be remitted by check.
3. The governor remitted the remainder of her life sentence.
4. A patient who has mild flare-ups in the skin and joints twice a year may one day awaken with kidney failure or paralysis that, one month later, mysteriously remits. —Elizabeth Rosenthal, New York Times Book Review, 19 Nov. 1989
5. And he was, therefore, as little surprised as a man could be, to find himself awakened at the small inn to which he had been remitted until morning, in the middle of the night. —Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, 1859
6. I was brought in guilty and sentenced to die; but that the judges, having been made sensible of the hardship of my circumstances, had obtained leave to remit the sentence upon my consenting to be transported. —Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders, 1722

Origin of REMIT

Middle English remitten, from Latin remittere to send back, from re- + mittere to send

First Known Use: 14th century

Related to REMIT

Synonyms

abate, decline, de-escalate, die (away or down or out), diminish, drain (away), drop (off), dwindle, ease, ebb, fall, fall away, lessen, let up, lower, moderate, pall, phase down, ratchet (down) also rachet (down), recede, relent, decrease, shrink, subside, taper, taper off, wane

Antonyms

accumulate, balloon, build, burgeon (also bourgeon), enlarge, escalate, expand, grow, increase, intensify, mount, mushroom, pick up, rise, snowball, soar, swell, wax

Related Words

compress, condense, constrict, contract; evaporate, fade (away), fritter (away), give out, melt (away), peter (out), tail (off), vanish; slacken, slow (down); alleviate, relax; flag, sink, weaken; cave (in), collapse, deflate

Near Antonyms

appear, emerge, show up; blow up, distend, elongate, lengthen

Rhymes with REMIT

a bit, acquit, admit, armpit, backfit, base hit, befit, bowsprit, bushtit, catch it, cesspit, close-knit, cockpit, commit, cool it, culprit, cut it, demit, dimwit, dog it, do it, emit, firelit, fleapit, gaslit, get it, gill slit, godwit, hack it, half-wit, hard-hit, henbit, house-sit, legit, lit crit, make it, mess kit, misfit, mishit, moonlit, mosh pit, nitwit, no-hit, obit, omit, outfit, outwit, owe it, peewit, permit, pinch-hit, Prakrit, press kit, pulpit, refit, rough it, sandpit, Sanskrit, scratch hit, snakebit, snake pit, starlit, stock split, submit, sunlit, switch-hit, tar pit, tidbit, tight-knit, tomtit, to wit, transmit, turnspit, twilit, two-bit, unfit, unknit, warp knit, watch it, weft knit, well-knit

²re·mit

noun \ri-ˈmit, ˈrē-ˌ\

Definition of REMIT

1

: an act of remitting (see ¹remit)

2

: something remitted to another person or authority

Origin of REMIT

(see ¹remit)

First Known Use: 15th century

re·mit

intransitive verb \ri-ˈmit\   (Medical Dictionary)

re·mit·ted; re·mit·ting

Medical Definition of REMIT

: to abate symptoms for a period : go into or be in remission <her leukemia remitted for a year>