commute
verb (used with object)
to change (a prison sentence or other penalty) to a less severe one.
uncommuted
-
a word derived from
commute.
Example Sentences
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Such a lady gave a neighborliness to both rank and religion, and mitigated the bitterness of uncommuted tithe.
From Middlemarch by George Eliot
