Synonym: absolve, acquit, exculpate, excuse, exonerate, forgive, vindicate. Antonym: punish. Similar words: tear down, jeopardize, done, donor, hand on, done in, hold on, abandon. Meaning: ['pɑrdn /'pɑːdn] 
n. 1. the act of excusing a mistake or offense 2. a warrant granting release from punishment for an offense 3. the formal act of liberating someone. v. 1. accept an excuse for 2. grant a pardon to.
n. 1. the act of excusing a mistake or offense 2. a warrant granting release from punishment for an offense 3. the formal act of liberating someone. v. 1. accept an excuse for 2. grant a pardon to. 211. Begging your pardon, miss gracie, you've never been on a horse.
212. Ludacris felt it was, and his Obama Is Here even boasted: "He said I handle my biz and I'm one of his favourite rappers/Well give Luda a special pardon if I'm ever in the slammer."
213. Offered a pardon by King George I when Captain Woodes Rogers came to the Bahamas to make the offer. Some pirates accepted this offer, but not Blackbeard.
214. The pattern of restorative judicature differs greatly from the pattern of traditional retributive justice, which takes great advantage of the criminal's penitence, repentance, and the victim's pardon.
215. One thing that surprised me was how hard he pushed me to pardon Jonathan Pollard, a former U.S. Navy intelligence analyst who had been convicted in 1986 of spying for Israel.
216. "We're meant to do it quarterly actually."— 'Oh quarterly. I beg your pardon. I thought it was monthly.'.