excuse
verbverified·updated Jun 3, 2026
defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning
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Senses
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excuse, overlook, or make allowances for
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serve as a reason or cause or justification of
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grant exemption or release to
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ask for permission to be released from an engagement
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accept an excuse for
Classifications
Cognitive
Understand72%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Responsibility
Unclassified—trigger_default_value
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Automation
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Variants
- synonym
- apologiseapologizebeg offcondoneexemptexplainjustifypardonrationaliserationalize
- pasttense
- excused
- presentparticiple
- excusing
- thirdpersonsingular
- excuses
- pastparticiple
- excused