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acquitter

/a.ki.te/

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verb/a.ki.te/

to pay; to acknowledge (a signal), to notify the receipt of; to clear, to acquit; to discharge, to complete (one's duty)

La jeune femme fit de réels efforts pour s'acquitter sérieusement de la corvée.The young woman made real serious efforts to finish her chores.

Inherited from Old French acquiter, from Medieval Latin acquitāre, adquietāre (“to pay a debt”), from ad- + quitare (“to set free”), from Late Latin quietāre.