excuse
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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
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～ ask for permission to be released from an engagement
excuse
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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
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～ accept an excuse for; "Please excuse my dirty hands"
excuse
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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"
execrate
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～ curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment
execrate
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～ find repugnant; "I loathe that man"; "She abhors cats"
execute
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～ murder in a planned fashion; "The Mafioso who collaborated with the police was executed"
execute
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～ carry out or perform an action; "John did the painting, the weeding, and he cleaned out the gutters"; "the skater executed a triple pirouette"; "she did a little dance"
execute
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～ carry out the legalities of; "execute a will or a deed"
execute
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～ put in effect; "carry out a task"; "execute the decision of the people"; "He actioned the operation"
execute
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～ carry out a process or program, as on a computer or a machine; "Run the dishwasher"; "run a new program on the Mac"; "the computer executed the instruction"
execute
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～ sign in the presence of witnesses; "The President executed the treaty"
execute
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～ kill as a means of socially sanctioned punishment; "In some states, criminals are executed"
exemplify
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～ be characteristic of; "This compositional style is exemplified by this fugue"
exemplify
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～ clarify by giving an example of
exempt
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～ grant exemption or release to; "Please excuse me from this class"
exempt
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～ grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to; "She exempted me from the exam"
exenterate
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～ remove the contents of (an organ)