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1. Oxford American Dictionary

   excuse

   • v.
     attempt to lessen the blame attaching to (a fault or offense); seek to defend or justify；forgive (someone) for a fault or offense
   • n.
     a reason or explanation put forward to defend or justify a fault or offense；a reason put forward to conceal the real reason for an action; a pretext

   • verb: excuse, 3rd person present: excuses, gerund or present participle: excusing, past tense: excused, past participle: excused

   • noun: excuse, plural noun: excuses

2. • 釋義
   • 片語

   v.

   動詞

   • 1. attempt to lessen the blame attaching to (a fault or offense); seek to defend or justify he did nothing to hide or excuse Jacob's cruelty 同義詞 justify, defend, make excuses for, make a case for, explain (away), ... 更多rationalize, condone, vindicate, warrant, mitigate, palliate, apologize for, forgive, overlook, disregard, ignore, pass over, turn a blind eye to, turn a deaf ear to, wink at, blink at, indulge, tolerate, sanction, rareextenuate反義詞 condemn
   • ▪ forgive (someone) for a fault or offense you must excuse my sister he could be excused for feeling that he was born at the wrong time 同義詞 forgive, pardon, absolve, exonerate, acquit, ... 更多make allowances for, informallet someone off (the hook), rareexculpate反義詞 punish, blame
   • ▪ overlook or forgive (a fault or offense) sit down—excuse the mess
   • ▪ (of a fact or circumstance) serve in mitigation of (a person or act) his ability excuses most of his faults
   • 2. release (someone) from a duty or requirement it will not be possible to excuse you from jury duty 同義詞 let off, release, relieve, exempt, spare, ... 更多absolve, free, liberate, raredispense反義詞 hold to
   • ▪ (used in polite formulas) allow (someone) to leave a room or gathering now, if you'll excuse us, we have to be getting along
   • ▪ say politely that one is leaving I had to excuse myself and go out of the room
   • ▪ (used especially by school pupils) be allowed to leave the room, especially to go to the bathroom please, can I be excused?

   n.

   名詞

   • 1. a reason or explanation put forward to defend or justify a fault or offense there can be no possible excuse for any further delay no one will have the excuse that they didn’t know 同義詞 justification, defense, reason, explanation, mitigating circumstances, ... 更多mitigation, extenuation, palliation, vindication, grounds, cause, basis, call, argument, apology, apologia, plea
   • ▪ a reason put forward to conceal the real reason for an action; a pretext when the rain started he used it as an excuse to leave early. 同義詞 pretext, ostensible reason, pretense, front, cover-up, ... 更多fabrication, evasion, informalstory, alibi, line, cop-out, get-out
   • 2. informal a poor or inadequate example of that pathetic excuse for a man! 同義詞 travesty of, apology for, poor specimen of, pitiful example of, mockery of, ... 更多pale shadow of, poor imitation of

   片語

   • excuse me
   • make one's excuses