assoil

Meaning

1. To absolve or release (someone) from blame or sin; to forgive, to pardon.
2. To atone or expiate for (something).
3. Followed by from or of: to acquit (someone) from a criminal charge; to find (someone) not guilty; to clear.
4. Followed by from or of: to release or set free (someone) from a liability, an obligation, etc.; to discharge.
5. (obsolete) To clear up or resolve (a difficulty, doubt, problem, etc.); to absolve, to solve.
6. (obsolete) To refute (an argument, an objection, etc.).
7. (obsolete) To discharge (a liability, an obligation, etc.).
8. (obsolete) To get rid of, put off, or remove (something).
9. (obsolete) To absolve or release (someone) from excommunication or some other religious offence.

Synonyms

acquit

exonerate

clear

exculpate

affranchise

absolve

set free

discharge

exempt

free

🆓

let off

liberate

liberated

manumit

redeem

release

relieve

remit

rescue

spell

unblock

unchain

uncork

unfreeze

whitewash

let go of

assoilzie

decontrol

deliver

disencumber

disengage

dispense

emancipate

enfranchise

Hyphenated as

as‧soil

Pronounced as (IPA)

/əˈsɔɪl/

Etymology

From Middle English assoilen (“to absolve or release from blame or sin”), from Anglo-Norman as(s)oiler, as(s)oilier, and Old French as(s)oille [and other forms], the present subjunctive, and as(s)oil, the present indicative, of as(s)oldre, as(s)oudre (“to absolve from blame”) (modern French absoudre), from Latin absoluere, the present active infinitive of absoluō, a variant of absolvō (“to set free from”), from ab- (prefix meaning ‘away from’) + solvō (“to loosen, set free”) (from sē- (“prefix meaning ‘apart; aside; away’”) + luō (“to let go, set free”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewH- (“to cut off, to free”). Doublet of absolve and assoilzie.