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excuse
ex·cuse E0269100 (ĭk-skyo͞oz′) tr.v. ex·cused, ex·cus·ing, ex·cus·es 1. a. To make allowance for; overlook or forgive: Please excuse the interruption. b. To grant pardon to; forgive: We quickly excused the latecomer. 2. a. To apologize for (oneself) for an act that could cause offense: She excused herself for being late. b. To explain (a fault or offense) in the hope of being forgiven or understood; try to justify: He arrived late and excused his tardiness by blaming it on the traffic. See Synonyms at forgive.3. To serve as justification for: Witty talk does not excuse bad manners. 4. To free, as from an obligation or duty; exempt: She was excused from jury duty because she knew the plaintiff. 5. To give permission to leave; release: The child ate quickly and asked to be excused. n. (ĭk-skyo͞os′) 1. An explanation offered to justify or obtain forgiveness. 2. A reason or grounds for excusing: Ignorance is no excuse for breaking the law. 3. The act of excusing. 4. A note explaining an absence. 5. Informal An inferior example: a poor excuse for a poet; a sorry excuse for a car. Idiom: Excuse me 1. Used to acknowledge and ask forgiveness for an action that could cause offense. 2. Used to request that a statement be repeated.
[Middle English excusen, ultimately (partly via Old French excuser) from Latin excūsāre : ex-, ex- + causa, lawsuit; see cause.]
ex·cus′a·ble adj. ex·cus′a·ble·ness n. ex·cus′a·bly adv. ex·cus′er n. excuse vb (tr) 1. to pardon or forgive: he always excuses her unpunctuality. 2. to seek pardon or exemption for (a person, esp oneself): to excuse oneself for one's mistakes. 3. to make allowances for; judge leniently: to excuse someone's ignorance. 4. to serve as an apology or explanation for; vindicate or justify: her age excuses her behaviour. 5. to exempt from a task, obligation, etc: you are excused making breakfast. 6. to dismiss or allow to leave: he asked them to excuse him. 7. to seek permission for (someone, esp oneself) to leave: he excused himself and left. 8. be excused euphemistic to go to the lavatory9. excuse me! an expression used to catch someone's attention or to apologize for an interruption, disagreement, or social indiscretion n 10. an explanation offered in defence of some fault or offensive behaviour or as a reason for not fulfilling an obligation, etc: he gave no excuse for his rudeness. 11. informal an inferior example of something specified; makeshift; substitute: she is a poor excuse for a hostess. 12. the act of excusing [C13: from Latin excusāre, from ex-1 + -cūsare, from causa cause, accusation] exˈcusable adj exˈcusableness n exˈcusably advex•cuse (v. ɪkˈskyuz; n. -ˈskyus)
v. -cused, -cus•ing,
n. v.t. 1. to regard or judge with indulgence; pardon or forgive; overlook (a fault, error, etc.). 2. to offer an apology for; seek to remove the blame of: He excused his absence by saying that he was ill. 3. to serve as an apology or justification for; justify: Ignorance of the law excuses no one. 4. to release from an obligation or duty: to be excused from jury duty. 5. to seek or obtain exemption or release for (oneself): to excuse oneself from a meeting. 6. to refrain from exacting; remit; dispense with: to excuse a debt. 7. to allow (someone) to leave: If you'll excuse me, I have to make a telephone call. n. 8. an explanation offered as a reason for being excused; a plea offered in extenuation of a fault or for release from an obligation, promise, etc. 9. a ground or reason for excusing or being excused: Ignorance is no excuse. 10. the act of excusing someone or something. 11. a pretext or subterfuge. 12. an inferior or inadequate specimen of something specified: His latest effort is a poor excuse for a poem. Idioms: Excuse me, (used as a polite expression in requesting permission to pass or when interrupting or disagreeing with someone). [1175–1225; Middle English escusen < Old French escuser < Latin excūsāre=ex- ex-1 + -cūsāre, derivative of causa cause] ex•cus′a•ble, adj. ex•cus′a•bly, adv. ex•cus′er, n. syn: excuse, forgive, pardon imply being lenient or giving up the wish to punish. excuse means to overlook some (usu.) slight offense, because of circumstance, realization that it was unintentional, or the like: to excuse rudeness. forgive is applied to excusing more serious offenses; the person wronged not only overlooks the offense but harbors no ill feeling against the offender: to forgive and forget. pardon often applies to an act of leniency or mercy by an official or superior; it usu. involves a serious offense or crime: The governor was asked to pardon the condemned criminal. excuseExcuse can be a noun or a verb. When it is a noun, it is pronounced /ɪk'skjuːs/. When it is a verb, it is pronounced /ɪk'skjuːz/. 1. used as a nounAn excuse is a reason that you give in order to explain why something has been done, has not been done, or will not be done. They are trying to find excuses for their failures.There is no excuse for this happening in a new building.You say that someone makes an excuse. I made an excuse and left the meeting early.You don't have to make any excuses to me.Be Careful!
Don't say that someone 'says an excuse'. 2. used as a verbIf someone is excused from doing something, they are officially allowed not to do it. She is usually excused from her duties during the school holidays.You can apply to be excused payment if your earnings are low.In conversation, if you say you must excuse yourself or if you ask someone to excuse you, you are saying politely that you must leave. Now I must excuse myself.You'll have to excuse me; I ought to be saying goodnight.If you excuse someone for something wrong they have done, you decide not to criticize them or be angry with them. Such delays cannot be excused.Please excuse my bad handwriting.3. 'forgive'Forgive is used in a similar way. However, when you say that you forgive someone, you usually mean that you have already been angry with them or argued with them. You cannot use 'excuse' in this way. I forgave him everything.4. 'excuse me'People often say Excuse me as a way of politely apologizing for something they are going to do. For example, you can say Excuse me when you are interrupting someone, when you want to get their attention, or when you want to get past them. Excuse me, but are you Mr Hess?5. 'apologize'However, when people say they are sorry for something they have done, don't say that they 'excuse themselves'. You say that they apologize. If you want to say that you are sorry for something you have done, you say Sorry, I'm sorry, or I apologize. She apologized for being so unkind.'You're late.' 'Sorry.'See apologizeexcuse
Past participle: excused
Gerund: excusing
| Present |
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| I excuse | | you excuse | | he/she/it excuses | | we excuse | | you excuse | | they excuse |
| Preterite |
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| I excused | | you excused | | he/she/it excused | | we excused | | you excused | | they excused |
| Present Continuous |
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| I am excusing | | you are excusing | | he/she/it is excusing | | we are excusing | | you are excusing | | they are excusing |
| Present Perfect |
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| I have excused | | you have excused | | he/she/it has excused | | we have excused | | you have excused | | they have excused |
| Past Continuous |
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| I was excusing | | you were excusing | | he/she/it was excusing | | we were excusing | | you were excusing | | they were excusing |
| Past Perfect |
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| I had excused | | you had excused | | he/she/it had excused | | we had excused | | you had excused | | they had excused |
| Future |
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| I will excuse | | you will excuse | | he/she/it will excuse | | we will excuse | | you will excuse | | they will excuse |
| Future Perfect |
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| I will have excused | | you will have excused | | he/she/it will have excused | | we will have excused | | you will have excused | | they will have excused |
| Future Continuous |
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| I will be excusing | | you will be excusing | | he/she/it will be excusing | | we will be excusing | | you will be excusing | | they will be excusing |
| Present Perfect Continuous |
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| I have been excusing | | you have been excusing | | he/she/it has been excusing | | we have been excusing | | you have been excusing | | they have been excusing |
| Future Perfect Continuous |
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| I will have been excusing | | you will have been excusing | | he/she/it will have been excusing | | we will have been excusing | | you will have been excusing | | they will have been excusing |
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| I had been excusing | | you had been excusing | | he/she/it had been excusing | | we had been excusing | | you had been excusing | | they had been excusing |
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| I would excuse | | you would excuse | | he/she/it would excuse | | we would excuse | | you would excuse | | they would excuse |
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| I would have excused | | you would have excused | | he/she/it would have excused | | we would have excused | | you would have excused | | they would have excused |
Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  excuse - 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"exculpation, self-justification, alibivindication, defense, defence - the justification for some act or belief; "he offered a persuasive defense of the theory"extenuation, mitigation - a partial excuse to mitigate censure; an attempt to represent an offense as less serious than it appears by showing mitigating circumstances | | 2. | excuse - a note explaining an absence; "he had to get his mother to write an excuse for him"billet, short letter, note, line - a short personal letter; "drop me a line when you get there" | | 3. | excuse - a poor example; "it was an apology for a meal"; "a poor excuse for an automobile"apologyexample, instance, illustration, representative - an item of information that is typical of a class or group; "this patient provides a typical example of the syndrome"; "there is an example on page 10" | | Verb | 1. | excuse - accept an excuse for; "Please excuse my dirty hands"pardonforgive - stop blaming or grant forgiveness; "I forgave him his infidelity"; "She cannot forgive him for forgetting her birthday" | | 2. | excuse - grant exemption or release to; "Please excuse me from this class"let off, exempt, relievefrank - exempt by means of an official pass or letter, as from customs or other checksabsolve, justify, free - let off the hook; "I absolve you from this responsibility" | | 3. | excuse - 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"explainalibi - exonerate by means of an alibivindicate, justify - show to be right by providing justification or proof; "vindicate a claim" | | 4. | excuse - defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning; "rationalize the child's seemingly crazy behavior"; "he rationalized his lack of success"apologise, rationalize, rationalise, apologize, justifycolour, gloss, color - give a deceptive explanation or excuse for; "color a lie"plead - offer as an excuse or plea; "She was pleading insanity"defend, fend for, support - argue or speak in defense of; "She supported the motion to strike"extenuate, mitigate, palliate - lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of; "The circumstances extenuate the crime" | | 5. | excuse - ask for permission to be released from an engagementbeg offcall for, request, bespeak, quest - express the need or desire for; ask for; "She requested an extra bed in her room"; "She called for room service" | | 6. | excuse - excuse, overlook, or make allowances for; be lenient with; "excuse someone's behavior"; "She condoned her husband's occasional infidelities"condoneforgive - stop blaming or grant forgiveness; "I forgave him his infidelity"; "She cannot forgive him for forgetting her birthday" |
excusenoun1. justification, reason, explanation, defence, grounds, plea, apology, pretext, vindication, mitigation, mitigating circumstances, extenuation There is no excuse for what he did.
justification charge, accusation, indictment, imputation2. pretext, evasion, pretence, cover-up, expedient, get-out, cop-out (slang), subterfuge It was just an excuse to get out of going to school.3. (Informal) poor substitute, apology, mockery, travesty He is a pathetic excuse for a father.verb1. justify, explain, defend, vindicate, condone, mitigate, apologize for, make excuses for I know you're upset but that doesn't excuse your behaviour.
justify accuse, blame, correct, condemn, punish, compel, oblige, criticize, censure, hold responsible, chastise, chasten, point a or the finger at2. forgive, pardon, overlook, tolerate, indulge, acquit, pass over, turn a blind eye to, exonerate, absolve, bear with, wink at, make allowances for, extenuate, exculpate He's a total bastard - excuse me for swearing.3. free, relieve, liberate, exempt, release, spare, discharge, let off, absolve She was excused from her duties for the day.
free charge, sentence, convict, indict, arraignexcuse me I beg your pardon, sorry, pardon, pardon me Excuse me, but could I just squeeze past you?Quotations
"And oftentimes excusing of a fault"
"Doth make the fault the worser by th'excuse" [William Shakespeare King John]
"Several excuses are always less convincing than one" [Aldous Huxley Point Counter Point]
"A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself" [Gertrude Stein Four in America]excuseverb1. To grant forgiveness to or for:condone, forgive, pardon, remit.Idiom: forgive and forget.2. To show to be just, right, or valid:justify, rationalize, vindicate.Idiom: make a case for.3. To free from an obligation or duty:absolve, discharge, dispense, exempt, let off, relieve, spare.noun1. An explanation offered to justify an action or make it better understood:plea, pretext.2. A statement of acknowledgment expressing regret or asking pardon:apology, mea culpa, regret (used in plural).3. The act or an instance of forgiving:absolution, amnesty, condonation, forgiveness, pardon, remission.Translationsexcuse (ikˈskjuːz) verb1. to forgive or pardon. Excuse me – can you tell me the time?; I'll excuse your carelessness this time. 原諒 原谅2. to free (someone) from a task, duty etc. May I be excused from writing this essay? 允許某人免做某事或某職務 允许某人不... (ikˈskjuːs) noun a reason (given by oneself) for being excused, or a reason for excusing. He has no excuse for being so late. 藉口 借口excusable (ikˈskjuːzəbl) adjective pardonable. 可原諒的 可原谅的excuse
excuse someone 1. . to forgive someone. (Usually with me. Said when interrupting or when some other minor offense has been committed. There are many mannerly uses of this expression.) John came in late and said, "Excuse me, please." John said "excuse me" when he interrupted our conversation. When John made a strange noise at the table, he said quietly, "Excuse me." John suddenly left the room saying, "Excuse me. I'll be right back." 2. to permit someone to leave; to permit someone to remain away from an event. The coach excused John from practice yesterday. The teacher excused John, and he ran quickly from the room.See:- a bad excuse is better than none
- bad excuse is better than none
- Can I be excused?
- Can you excuse us, please?
- Could I be excused?
- Could you excuse us, please?
- excuse
- excuse (one) for (something)
- excuse (one) from (something)
- excuse for
- excuse from
- Excuse me
- Excuse me for breathing!
- Excuse me for living!
- excuse my French
- excuse/pardon my French
- he who excuses himself accuses himself
- Ignorance is no excuse
- ignorance of the law is no excuse
- ignorance of the law is no excuse for breaking it
- May I be excused?
- Pardon my French
- pardon/excuse my French
- use as an excuse
- Well, pardon me for living!
- Will you excuse us, please?
- Would you excuse me?
- you should excuse the expression
- You're excused
Excuse
ExcuseThe explanation for the performance or nonperformance of a particular act; a reason alleged in court as a basis for exemption or relief from guilt. An excuse is essentially a defense for an individual's conduct that is intended to mitigate the individual's blameworthiness for a particular act or to explain why the individual acted in a specific manner. A driver sued for Negligence, for example, might raise the defense of excuse if the driver was rushing an injured person to a hospital, or if some unforeseen illness or mechanical failure made safe operation of the vehicle impossible. EXCUSE. A reason alleged for the doing or not doing a thing. This word presents two ideas differing essentially from each other. In one case an excuse may be made in, order to own that the party accused is not guilty; in another, by showing that though guilty, he is less so, than he appears to be. Take, for example, the case of a sheriff who has an execution against an individual, and who in performance of his duty, arrests him; in an action by the defendant against the sheriff, the latter may prove the facts, and this shall be a sufficient excuse for him: this is an excuse of the first kind, or a complete justification; the sheriff was guilty of no offence. But suppose, secondly, that the sheriff has an execution against Paul, and by mistake, and without any malicious design, be arrests Peter instead of Paul; the fact of his having the execution against Paul and the mistake being made, will not justify the sheriff, but it will extenuate and excuse his conduct, and this will be an excuse of the second kind.
3. Persons are sometimes excused for the commission of acts, which ordinarily are crimes, either because they had no intention of doing wrong, or because they had no power of judging, and therefore had no criminal will (q.v.); or having power, of judging they had no choice, and were compelled by necessity. Among the first class may be placed infants under the age of discretion, lunatics, and married women committing an offence in the presence of their husbands, not malum in se, as treason or murder; 1 Hale's P. C. 44, 45 or in offences relating to the domestic concern or management of the house, as the keeping of a bawdy house. Hawk. b. 1, c. 1, s. 12. Among acts of the second kind may be classed, the beating or killing another in self-defence; the destruction of property in order to prevent a more serious calamity, as the tearing down of a house on fire, to prevent its spreading to the neighboring property, and the like. See Dalloz, Dict. h.t. excuse
Synonyms for excusenoun justificationSynonyms- justification
- reason
- explanation
- defence
- grounds
- plea
- apology
- pretext
- vindication
- mitigation
- mitigating circumstances
- extenuation
Antonyms- charge
- accusation
- indictment
- imputation
noun pretextSynonyms- pretext
- evasion
- pretence
- cover-up
- expedient
- get-out
- cop-out
- subterfuge
noun poor substituteSynonyms- poor substitute
- apology
- mockery
- travesty
verb justifySynonyms- justify
- explain
- defend
- vindicate
- condone
- mitigate
- apologize for
- make excuses for
Antonyms- accuse
- blame
- correct
- condemn
- punish
- compel
- oblige
- criticize
- censure
- hold responsible
- chastise
- chasten
- point a or the finger at
verb forgiveSynonyms- forgive
- pardon
- overlook
- tolerate
- indulge
- acquit
- pass over
- turn a blind eye to
- exonerate
- absolve
- bear with
- wink at
- make allowances for
- extenuate
- exculpate
verb freeSynonyms- free
- relieve
- liberate
- exempt
- release
- spare
- discharge
- let off
- absolve
Antonyms- charge
- sentence
- convict
- indict
- arraign
phrase excuse meSynonyms- I beg your pardon
- sorry
- pardon
- pardon me
Synonyms for excuseverb to grant forgiveness to or forSynonyms- condone
- forgive
- pardon
- remit
verb to show to be just, right, or validSynonyms- justify
- rationalize
- vindicate
verb to free from an obligation or dutySynonyms- absolve
- discharge
- dispense
- exempt
- let off
- relieve
- spare
noun an explanation offered to justify an action or make it better understoodSynonymsnoun a statement of acknowledgment expressing regret or asking pardonSynonymsnoun the act or an instance of forgivingSynonyms- absolution
- amnesty
- condonation
- forgiveness
- pardon
- remission
Synonyms for excusenoun a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc.Synonyms- exculpation
- self-justification
- alibi
Related Words- vindication
- defense
- defence
- extenuation
- mitigation
noun a note explaining an absenceRelated Words- billet
- short letter
- note
- line
noun a poor exampleSynonymsRelated Words- example
- instance
- illustration
- representative
verb accept an excuse forSynonymsRelated Wordsverb grant exemption or release toSynonymsRelated Wordsverb serve as a reason or cause or justification ofSynonymsRelated Wordsverb defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoningSynonyms- apologise
- rationalize
- rationalise
- apologize
- justify
Related Words- colour
- gloss
- color
- plead
- defend
- fend for
- support
- extenuate
- mitigate
- palliate
verb ask for permission to be released from an engagementSynonymsRelated Words- call for
- request
- bespeak
- quest
verb excuse, overlook, or make allowances forSynonymsRelated Words |