1) Absolve 2) Clear 3) Excuse 4) Pardon 5) Remit 1) Absolve from payment 2) Concede 3) Condone 4) Exclusively Saxon word 5) Exclusively Anglo word 6) Grant 7) Not hold something against 8) Pardon 9) To accord forgiveness 10) To pardon 11) Word with Anglo-Saxon origins 12) Word of purely Anglo origin 13) Yield 
• (v. t.) To give wholly; to make over without reservation; to resign. • (v. t.) To give up resentment or claim to requital on account of (an offense or wrong); to remit the penalty of; to pardon; -- said in reference to the act forgiven. • (v. t.) To cease to feel resentment against, on account of wrong committed; to give up claim t...
For·give' transitive verb [ imperfect Forgave ; past participle Forgiven ; present participle & verbal noun Forgiving ] [ Middle English forgiven , foryiven , foryeven , Anglo-Saxon...
To forgive means to excuse or to pardon.
[v] - absolve from payment 2. [v] - stop blaming or grant forgiveness
verb stop blaming or grant forgiveness; `I forgave him his infidelity`; `She cannot forgive him for forgetting her birthday`