Excuse

[ɪk'skjuːz;ek-] or [ɪk'skjʊs]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a note explaining an absence; 'he had to get his mother to write an excuse for him'.

(noun.) 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'.

(verb.) excuse, overlook, or make allowances for; be lenient with; 'excuse someone's behavior'; 'She condoned her husband's occasional infidelities'.

(verb.) 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'.

(verb.) grant exemption or release to; 'Please excuse me from this class'.

(verb.) ask for permission to be released from an engagement.

(verb.) accept an excuse for; 'Please excuse my dirty hands'.

杰勒德整理--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) To regard with indulgence; to view leniently or to overlook; to pardon.

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) To relieve of an imputation by apology or defense; to make apology for as not seriously evil; to ask pardon or indulgence for.

(v. t.) The act of excusing, apologizing, exculpating, pardoning, releasing, and the like; acquittal; release; absolution; justification; extenuation.

(v. t.) That which is offered as a reason for being excused; a plea offered in extenuation of a fault or irregular deportment; apology; as, an excuse for neglect of duty; excuses for delay of payment.

(v. t.) That which excuses; that which extenuates or justifies a fault.

錄入:特德

同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. [1]. Pardon, forgive, acquit, absolve, exculpate, exonerate, clear, make apology for, set right.[2]. Extenuate, justify, vindicate.[3]. Exempt, release, free, let off.[4]. Overlook, regard indulgently.

n. [1]. Apology, plea, justification, absolution.[2]. Pretext, pretence, color, guise, disguise, semblance, make shift, false show.

編輯:卡罗尔

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Exculpate, absolve, pardon, forgive, overlook, condone, i_emit, indulge,justify, vindicate, defend, acquit, mitigate, extenuate, release, exempt,exonerate

ANT:Charge, inculpate, condemn, sentence, exact, strain, accuse

手打:洛伊斯

解釋/意思:

v.t. to free from blame or guilt: to forgive: to free from an obligation: to release dispense with: to make an apology or ask pardon for.—n. (eks-kūs′) a plea offered in extenuation of a fault: indulgence.—adj. Excus′able admitting of justification.—n. Excus′ableness.—adv. Excus′ably.—adj. Excus′atory making or containing excuse: apologetic.—Excuse me an expression used as an apology for any slight impropriety or for controverting a statement that has been made.

錄入:威廉姆斯