Definition of remit

• v. t. - To send back; to give up; to surrender; to resign.
• v. t. - To restore.
• v. t. - To transmit or send, esp. to a distance, as money in payment of a demand, account, draft, etc.; as, he remitted the amount by mail.
• v. t. - To send off or away; hence: (a) To refer or direct (one) for information, guidance, help, etc. "Remitting them . . . to the works of Galen." Sir T. Elyot. (b) To submit, refer, or leave (something) for judgment or decision.
• v. t. - To relax in intensity; to make less violent; to abate.
• v. t. - To forgive; to pardon; to remove.
• v. t. - To refrain from exacting or enforcing; as, to remit the performance of an obligation.
• v. i. - To abate in force or in violence; to grow less intense; to become moderated; to abate; to relax; as, a fever remits; the severity of the weather remits.
• v. i. - To send money, as in payment.