pardon🔊

Forgiveness for an offence. +

(law) An order that releases a convicted criminal without further punishment, prevents future punishment, or (in some jurisdictions) removes an offence from a person's criminal record, as if it had never been committed.

To forgive (a person). +

To refrain from exacting as a penalty.

(law) To grant an official pardon for a crime.

{{non-gloss|Often used when someone does not understand what another person says.}}