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pardon English

Meaning pardon meaning

What does pardon mean?
Definitions in simple English

pardon Interjection

— You use pardon to show that you didn't hear or understand someone. "Could you close the door, please?" "Pardon!" "Close the door, please." — You use pardon when you have made a rude sound like a burp.

pardon Verb

— If a government pardons somebody who is guilty of a crime, it allows them to live as though they had not committed the crime. The Ethiopian government has pardoned twenty five prisoners who were found guilty in connection to the unrest that rocked the nation. — When you pardon someone, you forgive them. I hope he'll pardon me for what I did to him.

pardon Noun

— You say pardon me or I beg your pardon when you didn't hear someone, when you accidentally tough someone, when you want someone's attention, or when you'd like someone to move. — A pardon is given when someone is forgiven. The soldier was given a pardon for all the acts he had committed while fighting in the war.

pardon

— verb grant a pardon to Ford pardoned Nixon The Thanksgiving turkey was pardoned by the President — verb (= excuse) accept an excuse for Please excuse my dirty hands — noun (= forgiveness) the act of excusing a mistake or offense — noun a warrant granting release from punishment for an offense — noun (= amnesty) the formal act of liberating someone

Synonyms pardon synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as pardon?

pardon English » English

forgive excuse forgiveness amnesty absolution remission condone remit reprieve mercy absolve clemency apology release overlook free pardon spare permission justify grace forgiving exculpate condonation apologize what untie tolerate pity make an apology let off lenient indulgence have mercy grant forgiveness forbearance exonerate excusing excuse oneself excuse me dismiss beg your pardon ask for pardon acquittal ’scuse vindicate validate toleration take responsibility sorry solve

Topics pardon topics

What do people use pardon to talk about?
Social behavior Law Punish

Pardon, release
Social behavior Conflict Peace

Forgive
Social behavior Conflict Peace Repent

Request forgiveness
Grammar Connected with, related Discourse markers

Honorifics

Conjugation pardon conjugation

How do you conjugate pardon?

pardon · verb

Examples pardon examples

How do I use pardon in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I beg your pardon?
Pardon me, but that is my racket.
Pardon me?
I beg your pardon; I didn't quite catch your name.
Pardon me for saying so.
The president granted a general pardon.
Pardon me for coming late.
Pardon my being late.
He asked our pardon for making a mistake.
He asked for my pardon.
He asked my pardon.
I beg your pardon. What did you say?
Why not apologize and ask for his pardon?
Pardon me for being in this dress.
I must ask your pardon.
Please pardon me for coming late.

Movie subtitles

Pardon me. Can I borrow your phone to watch porn?
Pardon, sir.
I beg your pardon that I brote off our conversation in this way.
Pardon me a moment.
Pardon me. It must be the postman.
Pardon me, my dear.
Pardon me. Are you related to the butler?
Hives, what is your salary? -Pardon me a moment.
Pardon me.
I beg your pardon, sir.
No pardon!
Pardon me, madam but what am I to say to the newspapermen?
Well, pardon me for actually trying something.
Pardon? -Address the jury.
Pardon?
Well, if you'll pardon me.
Pardon me, a caterpillar, Captain.
Oh, pardon me.
Pardon me. Am I intruding?
Pardon, that you are intruding.
Pardon me while I have a strange interlude.
Pardon me, did you lose a fish?
Beg your pardon, Lord Figtree.
Follow me. -Pardon me, my dear.
Oh, I beg your pardon.
I beg your pardon?
I beg you to pardon him!
Now, if you boys will pardon me for a few moments, I have some very important business to attend to.
Last sunday I ruined your pic-nic I would like it if you pardon me.
Pardon me. Mr. Baxter. Did you attend that ball last night?
Pardon me, Mr. Dix. I'm a detective.
Pardon me just a minute. Are you Richard Barthelmess?
Clever fellow. What a makeup. Pardon me.
Pardon me, Mr. Butterworth, you're wanted on the set immediately.
Pardon me, Mr. Amenoppopolus, but I had to speak to an old friend of mine.
I beg your pardon, sir, but you would make us very happy. if you'd set an earlier date for our wedding.

News and current affairs

Clinton used his presidential pardon to allow wealthy cronies to elude justice.
Even after conviction, the generals were sufficiently strong to exact a termination of the trials and then a pardon from the succeeding president.
There was also Gulnaz, a young woman who was jailed for adultery after being raped by a relative (she was recently released after a presidential pardon, but may be forced to marry her attacker).
The issue will turn on whether Ukraine's President, Viktor Yanukovych, fulfills one vital condition: a full pardon for political prisoner and former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.
But the EU's demand that Yanukovych pardon Tymoshenko, who narrowly lost the 2010 presidential election, may prove harder to satisfy.
At the commission's request, Yanukovych would pardon Tymoshenko, who would be allowed to travel to Germany for medical reasons.
Rather than a pardon, he wants parliament to pass a law allowing Tymoshenko to go to Germany for treatment, but on the condition that she would resume her prison sentence should she return to Ukraine.
As current ASEAN chair, he floated the idea of concertedly requesting a pardon for Aung San Suu Kyi.
But the pardon request is already significant.
Pardon the economist's stock answer: it all depends.
Rules were for others, and at the very end of his term in office his one public disagreement with Bush concerned the President's refusal to pardon Cheney's former chief of staff, Scooter Libby, who had been convicted of perjury.

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