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Definition: ABSOLVING |
ABSOLVINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Absolve |
Date "ABSOLVING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Crosswords: ABSOLVING |
| English words defined with "ABSOLVING": absolution, Absolutory, Absolvent ♦ remission, remission of sin, remittal. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "ABSOLVING": Absolve. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Worker Rights | Brazil | Human rights groups and land reform activists criticized a jury verdict in June in Paraiba absolving a landowner of guilt in the 1983 slaying of rural labor leader Margarida Maria Alves. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "ABSOLVING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ABSOLVING" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 100% | 10 | 111,207 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "ABSOLVING": guilt-absolving. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ABSOLVING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 赦免 (Absolution, Absolve, Absolved, Acquit, Acquitted, Acquitting, Amnestied, Amnestying, Clemency, Condone, Condoned, Condoning). (various references) | |
Dutch | strafuitsluitingsgrond (absolving excuse, excuse involving acquittal), grond van uitsluiting der strafbaarheid (absolving excuse, excuse involving acquittal). (various references) | |
Finnish | rangaistuksen estämisperuste (absolving excuse, excuse involving acquittal). (various references) | |
French | absolvant, absolutoire. (various references) | |
German | freisprechend (acquitting). (various references) | |
Italian | assolvente. (various references) | |
Manx | feayslee. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | absolvingay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | causa de exculpação (absolving excuse, excuse involving acquittal), causa de exclusão da ilicitude (absolving excuse, excuse involving acquittal). (various references) | |
Spanish | absolver (absolve, acquit, clear, discharge, let off, release). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ABSOLVING" (pronounced ubzÄ"lving or abzÄ"lving) |
| 6 | -z Ä" l v i ng | resolving. |
| 5 | -Ä" l v i ng | evolving, involving, revolving, solving. |
| 4 | -l v i ng | delving, dissolving, shelving. |
| 3 | -v i ng | achieving, approving, arriving, behaving, believing, braving, calving, caregiving, carving, caving, conceiving, conniving, conserving, craving, curving, deceiving, depriving, deriving, deserving, disapproving, disbelieving, diving, driving, earthmoving, engraving, forgiving, giving, grieving, halving, having, heaving, improving, interleaving, interweaving, jiving, leaving, lifesaving, living, loving, misbehaving, misgiving, moving, observing, paving, perceiving, preserving, proving, raving, receiving, relieving, reliving, removing, reserving, retrieving, reviving, revving, saving, serving, shaving, shoving, sieving, skydiving, starving, staving, striving, surviving, thanksgiving, thieving, thriving, unbelieving, undeserving, unforgiving, unnerving, unswerving, waiving, waving, weaving. |
| 6 | -z Ä" l v i ng | resolving. |
| 5 | -Ä" l v i ng | evolving, involving, revolving, solving. |
| 4 | -l v i ng | delving, dissolving, shelving. |
| 3 | -v i ng | achieving, approving, arriving, behaving, believing, braving, calving, caregiving, carving, caving, conceiving, conniving, conserving, craving, curving, deceiving, depriving, deriving, deserving, disapproving, disbelieving, diving, driving, earthmoving, engraving, forgiving, giving, grieving, halving, having, heaving, improving, interleaving, interweaving, jiving, leaving, lifesaving, living, loving, misbehaving, misgiving, moving, observing, paving, perceiving, preserving, proving, raving, receiving, relieving, reliving, removing, reserving, retrieving, reviving, revving, saving, serving, shaving, shoving, sieving, skydiving, starving, staving, striving, surviving, thanksgiving, thieving, thriving, unbelieving, undeserving, unforgiving, unnerving, unswerving, waiving, waving, weaving. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-g-i-l-n-o-s-v" | |
-1 letter: salvoing. | |
-2 letters: ablings, albinos, bagnios, gabions, globins, goblins, salving, slaving, solving. | |
-3 letters: ablins, albino, algins, aligns, aloins, anvils, avions, bagnio, baling, basing, basion, bingos, biogas, blains, bogans, bonsai, gabion, gibson, globin, gobans, goblin, lasing, laving, liangs, ligans, lingas, logans, losing, loving, ogival, saving, signal, silvan, slogan, soling, vinals, violas, voling. | |
-4 letters: aboil, agios, agons, algin, align, aloin, along, anils, anvil, avion, aviso, bails, bangs, basil, basin, binal, bingo, bison, blain, bogan, boils, boing, bolas, bongs, gains, gaols, glans, glias, globs, goals, goban, gonia, liang, ligan, linga, lingo, lings, linos, lions, loans, logan, logia, loins, longs, nabis, nails, nival, noils, novas, obias, ovals, sabin, salon, salvo, savin, silva, slain, slang, sling, snail, solan, vails, vangs, vials, vigas, vinal, vinas, vinos, viola, viols, voila. | |
-5 letters: abos, agin, agio, agon, ails, ains, albs, also, anil, anis, avos, bags, bail, bals, bang, bani, bans, bias, bigs, bins, bios, blin, boas, bogs, boil, bola, bong, gabs, gain, gals, gaol, gibs, gins, glia, glib, glob, goal, goas, gobs, ions, isba, labs, lags, lain, lang, lavs, libs, ling, lino, lins, lion, loan, lobs, logs, loin, long, nabs, nags, nail, naoi, naos, nibs, nils, nobs, nogs, noil, nova, obia, obis, oils, oval, sago, sail, sain, sang, sial, sign, silo, sing, slab, slag, slob, slog, snag, snib, snob, snog, soil, sola, soli, song, vagi, vail, vain, vang, vans, vial, viga, vigs, vina, vino, viol, visa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-g-i-l-n-o-s-v" | |
+2 letters: laborsaving. | |
+4 letters: subvocalizing. | |
+5 letters: bougainvilleas. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 42 53 4F 4C 56 49 4E 47 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -... ... --- .-.. ...- .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01000010 01010011 01001111 01001100 01010110 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A B S O L V I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0042 0053 004F 004C 0056 0049 004E 0047 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)353653494656434841 |
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