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amnesty
An amnesty is an official pardon granted to a group of prisoners by the state. -
consign
To consign something or someone to a place where they will be forgotten about, or to an unpleasant situation or place, means to put them there. -
lethal
of, relating to, or causing death; deadly; fatal: a lethal weapon; a lethal dose. -
lethe
Classical Mythology. a river in Hades whose water caused forgetfulness of the past in those who drank of it. -
limbo
(often initial capital letter) Roman Catholic Theology. a region on the border of hell or heaven, serving as the abode after death of unbaptized infants (limbo of infants) and of the righteous who died before the coming of Christ (limbo of the fathers or limbo of the patriarchs) -
nirvana
(often initial capital letter). Pali nibbana. Buddhism. freedom from the endless cycle of personal reincarnations, with their consequent suffering, as a result of the extinction of individual passion, hatred, and delusion: attained by the Arhat as his goal but postponed by the Bodhisattva.