excuse ***
relieve **
let off
exempt *

I don't even know whether they let them off at the head office.

They let him off across the street from his building.

They did not touch each other, when he let her off.

It isn't as if they let them off on Earth!

He and his friend returned the next day to the house where the girl had been let off.

But he was not to be let off so easy.

They even know what stop to let him off at.

In the end the matter was let off without much public attention.

"No matter what problems he got into, they would let him off."

Some friends of his gave evidence for him and he was let off with a fine.