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Another word for rationalize

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rationalize

v.

To justify
explain away, vindicate, reconcile; see excuse, justify 2.
To reason
think, deliberate, intellectualize; see reason 2.

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verb

To show to be just, right, or valid:
excuse, justify, vindicate. Idiom: make a case for. See right
To offer reasons for or a cause of:
account for, explain, justify. See explain

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Herodotus of Heraclea struggled to rationalize mythology, and established chronology on a solid basis.
This will help you rationalize and accept your place here, I believe.
Gabriel wanted to say something to her, to apologize, to rationalize what happened … He felt like he was on the verge of snapping, unable to settle the turmoil of his emotions.
He didn't think he'd ever be able to rationalize that both Deidres had gone to Darkyn instead of trusting him without resentment.
If he never had any sympathy with Herbert's intuitionalist principles in philosophy, he was no less eager, as he afterwards showed, than Herbert to rationalize in matters of religious doctrine, so that he may be called the second of the English deists, as Herbert has been called the first.

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