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  1. 1. n. The act of remitting, surrendering, resigning, or giving up. Source: opted
  2. 2. n. Discharge from that which is due; relinquishment of a claim, right, or obligation; pardon of transgression; release from forfeiture, penalty, debt, etc. Source: opted
  3. 3. n. Diminution of intensity; abatement; relaxation. Source: opted
  4. 4. n. A temporary and incomplete subsidence of the force or violence of a disease or of pain, as destinguished from intermission, in which the disease completely leaves the patient for a time; abatement. Source: opted
  5. 5. n. The act of sending back. Source: opted
  6. 6. n. Act of sending in payment, as money; remittance. Source: opted
  7. 7. n. an abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease) Source: wordnet
  8. 8. n. a payment of money sent to a person in another place Source: wordnet
  9. 9. n. (law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court) Source: wordnet
  10. 10. n. the act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance Source: wordnet
  11. 11. A temporary and incomplete subsidence of the force or violenceof a disease or of pain, as destinguished from intermission, in whichthe disease completely leaves the patient for a time; abatement. Source: adambom

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