excuse
/ɪkˈskjuz/ v [T] (FORGIVE)Definition
› to forgive someone: Please excuse me for being so late – there was a lot of traffic. It was hard to excuse him for treating me so badly. excuse someone from › To excuse someone from an activity is to give that person permission to stop doing it or not do it: I was excused from jury duty because I had to take care of my sick mother. excusable /ɪkˈskju·zə·bəl/ adj › Considering her difficult childhood, her behavior is excusable.
(Definition of excuse v (FORGIVE) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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