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- apologize
collapse - acknowledge faults or shortcomings or failing; "I apologized for being late"; "He apologized for the many typoes"
- defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning; "rationalize the child's seemingly crazy behavior"; "he rationalized his lack of success" related words >
- alibi,
- alibi out of,
- apologize for,
- ask forgiveness,
- beg indulgence,
- beg pardon,
- cover with excuses,
- defend,
- do penance,
- espouse,
- excuse,
- express regret,
- justify,
- lie out of,
- make apology for,
- offer excuse for,
- plead guilty,
- plead ignorance,
- reform,
- repent,
- squirm out of,
- take back,
- think better of,
- vindicate,
- worm out of
- alibi
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- (law) a defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question
- exonerate by means of an alibi related words >
- alibi out of,
- apologize for,
- apology,
- blind,
- cloak,
- color,
- cop-out,
- cover,
- cover story,
- cover with excuses,
- cover-up,
- device,
- excuse,
- explain,
- explanation,
- facade,
- feint,
- front,
- gloss,
- guise,
- handle,
- lame excuse,
- lie out of,
- likely story,
- locus standi,
- make apology for,
- mask,
- offer excuse for,
- ostensible motive,
- out,
- plea,
- plead ignorance,
- poor excuse,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- protestation,
- public motive,
- put-off,
- refuge,
- right,
- screen,
- semblance,
- sham,
- show,
- smoke screen,
- squirm out of,
- stalking-horse,
- stratagem,
- subterfuge,
- trick,
- varnish,
- veil,
- worm out of
- alibi,
- alibi out of,
- apologize for,
- arouse,
- bring forth,
- bring out,
- bring to light,
- call forth,
- call out,
- call up,
- catechize,
- cover with excuses,
- creep out of,
- deduce,
- derive,
- drag out,
- draw forth,
- draw out,
- educe,
- elicit,
- evoke,
- examine,
- excuse,
- find a loophole,
- get from,
- get out of,
- induce,
- interrogate,
- interview,
- lie out of,
- make apology for,
- obtain,
- offer excuse for,
- plead ignorance,
- procure,
- pump,
- query,
- question,
- quiz,
- rouse,
- secure,
- shuffle out of,
- slide out of,
- slip away,
- slip out of,
- slip through,
- sneak out of,
- sneak through,
- squirm out of,
- stimulate,
- summon forth,
- summon up,
- test,
- wangle,
- wangle out of,
- winkle out,
- worm out,
- wriggle out of
- excuse
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- 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" related words >
- 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
- allowance
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- the act of allowing; "He objected to the allowance of smoking in the dining room"
- a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits
- an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances; "an allowance for profit"
- an amount allowed or granted (as during a given period); "travel allowance"; "my weekly allowance of two eggs"; "a child's allowance should not be too generous"
- a sum granted as reimbursement for expenses
- put on a fixed allowance, as of food related words >
- C ration,
- K ration,
- OK,
- abatement,
- acceptance,
- account,
- acknowledgment,
- adjustment,
- admission,
- agio,
- aid,
- alimony,
- allocation,
- allotment,
- allowing,
- annuity,
- apportionment,
- appreciation,
- appropriation,
- approximation,
- assessment,
- assignment,
- assistance,
- authorization,
- avowal,
- bank discount,
- big end,
- bigger half,
- bill,
- bit,
- bite,
- blackmail,
- blood money,
- board,
- bounty,
- breakage,
- budget,
- bulge,
- cash discount,
- cession,
- chain discount,
- charge-off,
- charter,
- chunk,
- circumscription,
- color,
- commission,
- commons,
- concession,
- confession,
- consent,
- consideration,
- contingent,
- countenance,
- credit,
- cut,
- deadwood,
- deal,
- declaration,
- decontamination,
- deduction,
- depletion allowance,
- depreciation,
- destiny,
- deviation,
- discount,
- dispensation,
- dividend,
- dole,
- drawback,
- edge,
- emergency rations,
- emolument,
- end,
- equal share,
- exception,
- excuses,
- exemption,
- extenuating circumstances,
- extenuation,
- extenuative,
- fate,
- favor,
- fee,
- fellowship,
- field rations,
- financial assistance,
- footing,
- gilding,
- gloss,
- grain of salt,
- grant,
- grant-in-aid,
- guaranteed annual income,
- half,
- halver,
- handicap,
- head start,
- hedge,
- hedging,
- help,
- helping,
- hush money,
- imprecision,
- inaccuracy,
- inaccurateness,
- incorrectness,
- indulgence,
- inexactitude,
- inexactness,
- initiation fee,
- interest,
- kickback,
- laxity,
- leave,
- liberty,
- license,
- limitation,
- looseness,
- lot,
- meals,
- measure,
- meed,
- mental reservation,
- mess,
- mileage,
- mitigation,
- modicum,
- modification,
- moiety,
- negligence,
- odds,
- okay,
- old-age insurance,
- overhand,
- palliation,
- palliative,
- part,
- patent,
- payment,
- pecuniary aid,
- penalty,
- penalty clause,
- pension,
- percentage,
- permission,
- permission to enter,
- permit,
- permitting,
- piece,
- pin money,
- pocket money,
- portion,
- predictable error,
- premium,
- price reduction,
- price support,
- price-cut,
- probable error,
- profession,
- proportion,
- public assistance,
- public welfare,
- qualification,
- quantum,
- quota,
- rake-off,
- ration,
- rations,
- rebate,
- rebatement,
- reckoning,
- recognition,
- recompense,
- reduction,
- refund,
- reimbursement,
- release,
- relief,
- remittance,
- remuneration,
- reservation,
- restriction,
- retainer,
- retaining fee,
- retirement benefits,
- rollback,
- salvage,
- salvo,
- sanction,
- sanctioning,
- scholarship,
- scot,
- segment,
- setoff,
- share,
- short commons,
- slice,
- small share,
- softening,
- special case,
- special permission,
- special treatment,
- specialness,
- specification,
- stake,
- standard deviation,
- start,
- stipend,
- stock,
- subsidization,
- subsidy,
- subvention,
- sufferance,
- suffering,
- support,
- tare,
- tax benefit,
- ticket,
- ticket of admission,
- time discount,
- tolerance,
- tolerating,
- toleration,
- trade discount,
- tret,
- tribute,
- tucker,
- uncorrectness,
- underselling,
- unfactualness,
- unpreciseness,
- unrigorousness,
- vantage,
- varnish,
- vouchsafement,
- waiver,
- welfare,
- welfare aid,
- welfare payments,
- whitewash,
- whitewashing,
- write-off
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