Definition of "absolves" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of absolve. (verb)

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• "Or are we to admire the noble campaign of phone calls, and accept that exceesive force plus phone calls absolves the IDF of responsibility?"
• "The professor then "absolves" Palin of being a member of a hate group but then casts a suspicious light upon her religious affiliation:"
• "If Aue attempts a play onour sympathy through these allusions -- "I never had a choice" -- we can accept it as such without believing his resort to this grandiosity actually absolves him of blame."