Sentences with absolve
ab·solve
A a - A police investigation yesterday absolved the police of all blame in the incident. [V n + of/from]
- You will absolve a subject from his allegiance.
- This shouldn't absolve them for poor performances.
- We take our refugees as we find them, which is not to absolve any group of civic responsibility.
- We shall not absolve the doubt.
- Absolves the just, and dooms the guilty souls.
- But even these manufacturing problems don't absolve multinational toy companies from responsibility.
- But the system would not absolve hospital staff of blame for negligence.
- To make confession and to be absolved.
- In his name I absolve your perjury and sanctify your arms.
- I do not believe they were trying to absolve the government or the Reserve Bank from responsibility for what happened.
- He cannot absolve himself, however; he is haunted by the memory of a boy he dared to walk a dangerous plank over a well, with fatal results.
- The court absolved her of guilt in his death.
- To be absolved from one's oath.
- Absolve implies a setting free from responsibilities or obligation [absolved from her promise] or from the penalties for their violation; acquit means to release from a specific charge by a judicial decision, usually for lack of evidence; to , exonerate is to relieve of the blame for a wrongdoing; to , pardon is to release from punishment for an offense [the prisoner was pardoned by the governor]; forgive implies giving up all claim that an offense be punished as well as any resentment or vengeful feelings; to , vindicate is to clear (a person or thing under attack) through evidence of the unfairness of the charge, criticism, etc.