| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To forgive, apologize, absolve, pardon or trivialize.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To justify, substantiate or vindicate.[Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Present participle conjugation of the verb excuse.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (excuse) | 1. Accept an excuse for; "Please excuse my dirty hands".[Wordnet]. 2. Grant exemption or release to; "Please excuse me from this class".[Wordnet]. 3. Serve as a reason or cause or justification of; "Your need to sleep late does not excuse your late arrival at work".[Wordnet]. 4. Defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning.[Wordnet]. 5. Ask for permission to be released from an engagement.[Wordnet]. 6. Excuse, overlook, or make allowances for; be lenient with; "excuse someone's behavior".[Wordnet]. 7. To free from accusation, or the imputation of fault or blame; to clear from guilt; to release from a charge; to justify by extenuating a fault; to exculpate; to absolve; to acquit.[Websters]. 8. To pardon, as a fault; to forgive entirely, or to admit to be little censurable, and to overlook; as, we excuse irregular conduct, when extraordinary circumstances appear to justify it.[Websters]. 9. To regard with indulgence; to view leniently or to overlook; to pardon.[Websters]. 10. To free from an impending obligation or duty; hence, to disengage; to dispense with; to release by favor; also, to remit by favor; not to exact; as, to excuse a forfeiture.[Websters]. 11. To relieve of an imputation by apology or defense; to make apology for as not seriously evil; to ask pardon or indulgence for.[Websters]. 12. Base verb from the following inflections: excusing, excused, excuses, excuser, excusers, excusingly and excusedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective | 1. Being forgiving, lenient or tolerant.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Being blinding. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Being extenuating. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being easy. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Being redeeming.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "EXCUSING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Specialty Definition: EXCUSING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] s as z. Acquitting of guilt or fault; forgiving; overlooking.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Present participle of excuse. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: excuse
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Excuse 17 | Excuse 17 is a punk rock band from Olympia, Washington that performed and recorded in the mid 1990s. (references) | ||
| Excuse Me Mr. | Excuse Me Mr. is a song by No Doubt off the 1995 album Tragic Kingdom. It also appears on their 2003 album The Singles: 1992-2003. (references) | ||
| Innocence Is No Excuse | Innocence Is No Excuse is the seventh studio album by heavy metal band Saxon released in 1985 (see 1985 in music). (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: excuse
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Blind excuse | Slang in 1811 | BLIND EXCUSE. A poor or insufficient excuse. A blind ale-house, lane, or alley; an obscure, or little known or frequented ale-house, lane, or alley. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
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