DICTOMETER

DISPENSAR (Spanish for "excuse")

(excuse, exempt, give, pardon, frita, gi, tilgi)

1. Synonyms:
   • Excuse
   • Alibi
   • Exculpation
   • Self-justification
   Definitions:
   • a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc.
   Examples:
   • He kept finding excuses to stay
   • Every day he had a new alibi for not getting a job
   • His transparent self-justification was unacceptable
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Excuse
   Definitions:
   • a note explaining an absence
   Examples:
   • He had to get his mother to write an excuse for him
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Apology
   • Excuse
   Definitions:
   • a poor example
   Examples:
   • It was an apology for a meal
   • A poor excuse for an automobile
   
   

1. Synonyms:
   • Excuse
   • Pardon
   Definitions:
   • accept an excuse for
   Examples:
   • Please excuse my dirty hands
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Excuse
   • Relieve
   • Let off
   • Exempt
   Definitions:
   • grant exemption or release to
   Examples:
   • Please excuse me from this class
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Excuse
   • Explain
   Definitions:
   • serve as a reason or cause or justification of
   Examples:
   • Your need to sleep late does not excuse your late arrival at work
   • Her recent divorce may explain her reluctance to date again
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Apologize
   • Apologise
   • Excuse
   • Justify
   • Rationalize
   • Rationalise
   Definitions:
   • defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning
   Examples:
   • Rationalize the child's seemingly crazy behavior
   • He rationalized his lack of success
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Excuse
   • Beg off
   Definitions:
   • ask for permission to be released from an engagement
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Excuse
   • Condone
   Definitions:
   • excuse, overlook, or make allowances for
   • be lenient with
   Examples:
   • Excuse someone's behavior
   • She condoned her husband's occasional infidelities