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Exact Match:

excuse

a note explaining an absence; "he had to get his mother to write an excuse for him"

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"

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

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"

grant exemption or release to; "Please excuse me from this class"

ask for permission to be released from an engagement

accept an excuse for; "Please excuse my dirty hands"

Synonyms:

• abject apology,
• absolution,
• absolve,
• acknowledgment,
• acquit,
• acquittal,
• acquittance,
• alibi,
• alibi out of,
• allow,
• amnesty,
• apologize for,
• apology,
• basis,
• be blind to,
• blind,
• breast-beating,
• cause,
• clear,
• clearance,
• clearing,
• cloak,
• color,
• compurgation,
• condonation,
• condone,
• confession,
• contrition,
• cop-out,
• cover,
• cover story,
• cover with excuses,
• cover-up,
• decontaminate,
• defence,
• defend,
• defense,
• destigmatization,
• destigmatize,
• destigmatizing,
• device,
• discharge,
• disculpation,
• dismiss,
• dismissal,
• dispense,
• dispense from,
• dispense with,
• disregard,
• escape,
• evasion,
• except,
• exculpate,
• exculpation,
• exempt,
• exempt from,
• exemption,
• exonerate,
• exoneration,
• explain,
• explanation,
• extenuate,
• extenuation,
• facade,
• feint,
• forgive,
• forgiveness,
• foundation,
• free,
• front,
• give absolution,
• give dispensation from,
• gloss,
• gloss over,
• grace,
• grant amnesty to,
• grant forgiveness,
• grant immunity,
• grant remission,
• grounds,
• guise,
• handle,
• heedlessness,
• ignore,
• immunity,
• indemnity,
• indulgence,
• justification,
• justify,
• lame excuse,
• let go,
• let off,
• liberate,
• lie out of,
• likely story,
• locus standi,
• loophole,
• make apology for,
• makeshift,
• mask,
• mea culpa,
• mitigate,
• mitigation,
• nonpros,
• offer excuse for,
• ostensible motive,
• out,
• overlook,
• palliate,
• palliation,
• pardon,
• pass over,
• penitence,
• permit,
• plea,
• plead ignorance,
• poor excuse,
• pretense,
• pretension,
• pretext,
• protestation,
• public motive,
• purgation,
• purge,
• purging,
• put-off,
• quash the charge,
• quietus,
• quittance,
• rational ground,
• rationale,
• rationalization,
• rationalize,
• reason,
• reason for,
• reason why,
• redemption,
• refuge,
• regrets,
• release,
• relieve,
• remise,
• remission,
• remission of sin,
• remit,
• reprieve,
• right,
• save the necessity,
• screen,
• semblance,
• set free,
• sham,
• shift,
• show,
• shrift,
• shrive,
• shrug off,
• smoke screen,
• spare,
• sparing,
• squirm out of,
• stalking-horse,
• stall,
• stated cause,
• stopgap,
• story,
• stratagem,
• substitute,
• subterfuge,
• the big idea,
• the idea,
• the whatfor,
• the wherefore,
• the why,
• trick,
• underlying reason,
• varnish,
• veil,
• verdict of acquittal,
• vindicate,
• vindication,
• warrant,
• way out,
• whitewash,
• wink at,
• withdraw the charge,
• worm out of