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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
excuse
▶verb /ɪkˈskjuːz, ɛk-/
- 1 try or serve to justify (a fault or offence); mitigate.
■ forgive (a fault or offence, or a person committing one).
- 2 release from a duty or requirement.
■ (used in polite formulas) allow to leave a room or gathering.
■ (excuse oneself) say politely that one is leaving.
- 1 a defence or justification of a fault or offence.
- 2 something said to conceal the real reason for an action.
- 3 (an excuse for) informal a poor or inadequate example of.
– phrases
excuse me a polite apology for an interruption, asking someone to move, etc.
excuse me a polite apology for an interruption, asking someone to move, etc.
■ N. Amer. used to ask someone to repeat a remark.
– derivatives
excusable adjective,
excusably adverb,
excusatory adjective.
excusable adjective,
excusably adverb,
excusatory adjective.
– origin ME: from OFr. escuser (v.), from L. excusare ‘to free from blame’, from ex- ‘out’ + causa ‘accusation, cause’.
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