pardon
por duhn
- n the act of excusing a mistake or offense
- n a warrant granting release from punishment for an offense
- n the formal act of liberating someone
- v accept an excuse for
- v grant a pardon to
Ford pardoned Nixon
The Thanksgiving turkey was pardoned by the President
- President Bush issued another round of pardons yesterday, including a rare posthumous one for a man convicted of selling B-17s in 1948 to Jewish resistance fighters in Israel.
- Picking up the conversation from our earlier thread: President Bush issued 14 pardons and commuted two sentences yesterday.
- PTI's list of the most notorious presidential pardons.