excuse
— Verb
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～ excuse, overlook, or make allowances for; be lenient with; "excuse someone's behavior"; "She condoned her husband's occasional infidelities"
excuse
— Verb
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～ ask for permission to be released from an engagement
excuse
— Verb
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～ serve as a reason or cause or justification of; "Your need to sleep late does not excuse your late arrival at work"; "Her recent divorce may explain her reluctance to date again"
excuse
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～ grant exemption or release to; "Please excuse me from this class"
excuse
— Verb
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～ accept an excuse for; "Please excuse my dirty hands"
excuse
— Verb
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～ defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning; "rationalize the child's seemingly crazy behavior"; "he rationalized his lack of success"
excuse
— Noun
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～ a poor example; "it was an apology for a meal"; "a poor excuse for an automobile"
excuse
— Noun
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～ a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc.; "he kept finding excuses to stay"; "every day he had a new alibi for not getting a job"; "his transparent self-justification was unacceptable"
excuse
— Noun
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～ a note explaining an absence; "he had to get his mother to write an excuse for him"
excused
— Adjective
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～ granted exemption; "one of the excused jurors planned to write a book"
excuser
— Noun
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～ a person who pardons or forgives or excuses a fault or offense