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amnestying

amnestying is the present participle and gerund of amnesty.

Meaning of amnesty

Verb

amnesty (third-person singular simple present amnesties, present participle amnestying, simple past and past participle amnestied)

  1. (transitive) To grant a pardon (to a group).
    • Shortly after the end of military rule in 1983, the Argentinean National Congress passed legislation that effectively amnestied many persons who allegedly committed human rights violations such as torture, extra-judicial killing, and forced disappearance. […] In other words, a government may be...Fall 2007, Gaspar Forteza, “Regarding Simón y otros: Accountability in Argentina and International Human Rights as Domestic Positive Law”, in FIU Law Review, volume 3, number 1, →ISSN, archived from...

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Questions about amnestying

What is amnestying the present participle and gerund of?
Amnestying is the present participle and gerund of amnesty.

Words near amnestying in the dictionary

  1. amnestically
  2. amnestics
  3. amnestied
  4. amnesties
  5. amnesty
  6. amnestying
  7. amnia
  8. amnicolid
  9. amnicolids
  10. amnicolist
  11. amnicolists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: amnestying (page history and authors); amnesty (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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