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remission

(law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court)

an abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease); "his cancer is in remission"

Synonyms:

• abatement,
• abeyance,
• absolution,
• acquittal,
• acquittance,
• allayment,
• alleviation,
• amnesty,
• assuagement,
• attrition,
• blunting,
• break,
• caesura,
• calming,
• catabasis,
• cease-fire,
• clearance,
• clearing,
• collapse,
• compurgation,
• crash,
• curtailment,
• cut,
• cutting,
• damping,
• day off,
• deadening,
• deceleration,
• declension,
• decline,
• decline and fall,
• decrease,
• decrement,
• decrescendo,
• deliverance,
• demulsion,
• depletion,
• depreciation,
• derogation,
• destigmatization,
• destigmatizing,
• detraction,
• diminuendo,
• diminution,
• dip,
• discharge,
• disculpation,
• dismissal,
• disparagement,
• dive,
• downtrend,
• downturn,
• drop,
• dulcification,
• dulling,
• dwindling,
• easing,
• ebb,
• ebbing,
• exculpation,
• excuse,
• exemption,
• exoneration,
• extraction,
• fall,
• falling-off,
• forgiveness,
• grace,
• hesitation,
• holiday,
• hushing,
• immunity,
• impairment,
• indemnity,
• indulgence,
• interim,
• interlude,
• intermezzo,
• intermission,
• intermittence,
• interruption,
• interval,
• lapse,
• layoff,
• leniency,
• lessening,
• letdown,
• letup,
• lightening,
• loosening,
• lull,
• lulling,
• mitigation,
• modulation,
• mollification,
• pacification,
• palliation,
• pardon,
• pause,
• plunge,
• purgation,
• purging,
• quietening,
• quieting,
• quietus,
• quittance,
• recess,
• redemption,
• reduction,
• relaxation,
• release,
• remission of sin,
• reprieve,
• respite,
• rest,
• retraction,
• retreat,
• retrenchment,
• shortening,
• shrift,
• shrinkage,
• slackening,
• slowdown,
• slump,
• softening,
• soothing,
• sparing,
• stand-down,
• stay,
• subduement,
• subsidence,
• suspension,
• tempering,
• tranquilization,
• truce,
• truncation,
• vacation,
• verdict of acquittal,
• vindication,
• wane