| 单词 | alibi |
| 释义 | alibi (once / 4319 pages) nv Your alibi is evidence that proves your innocence. If you were making cookies with your mom when someone raided your sister's piggy bank, your mom is your alibi, since she knows you were with her when the crime was committed. The noun alibi is the same word as its Latin root, alibi, which means "excuse." When you provide an alibi, you are giving proof — a certified excuse — that you could not have committed a crime. Alibi is easy to confuse with alias, which means "an assumed, or false, name." WORD FAMILYalibi: alibied, alibiing, alibis USAGE EXAMPLESWashington’s representative, Deputy Ambassador Michele Sison, described that remark as a “made-up alibi.” Washington Post(Dec 05, 2016) The US dismissed this as a "made-up alibi", saying Russia wanted to preserve recent military gains by Syrian government troops in Aleppo. BBC(Dec 05, 2016) He continues to alibi for the sweat-lodge death by way of offhand analogies to other adventuresome undertakings. Slate(Dec 01, 2016) 1n (law) a defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question Hyper defence, defense, vindication the justification for some act or belief 2n a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc. every day he had a new alibi for not getting a job Syn|Hypo|Hyper exculpation, excuse, self-justification extenuation, mitigation a partial excuse to mitigate censure; an attempt to represent an offense as less serious than it appears by showing mitigating circumstances defence, defense, vindication the justification for some act or belief 3v exonerate by means of an alibi Hyper excuse, explain serve as a reason or cause or justification of |
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