To send back.To transmit or send, as money, bills, or other things in payment for goods received.To restore; replace.To transfer.In law, to transfer (a cause) from one tribunal or judge to another, particularly from an appellate court to the court of original jurisdiction. See remit, n.To refer.To give or deliver up; surrender; resign.To slacken; relax the tension of; hence, figuratively, to diminish in intensity; make less intense or violent; abate.To refrain from exacting; give up, in whole or in part: as, to remit punishment.To pardon; forgive.To omit; cease doing.Synonyms To forward.To release, relinquish.To slacken; become less intense or rigorous.To abate by growing less earnest, eager, or active.In medicine, to abate in violence for a time without intermission: as, a fever remits at a certain hour every day.In com., to transmit money, etc.n. In Scots law, a remission; a sending back.n. A formal communication from a body having higher jurisdiction, to one subordinate to it.