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Excusing Synonyms

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Serve as a reason or cause or justification of
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. absolving
  2. condoning
  3. justifying
  4. exonerating
  5. exempting
  6. remitting
  7. acquitting
  8. rationalizing
  9. overlooking
  10. extenuating
  11. mitigating
  12. explaining
  13. sparing
  14. exculpating
  15. discharging
  16. whitewashing
  17. palliating
  18. purging
  19. relieving
  20. freeing
  21. reprieving
  22. releasing
  23. outing
  24. vindicating
  25. indulging
  26. pardoning
  27. dispensing
  28. shriving
  29. defending
  30. concocting
  31. conciliating
Defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. rationalizing
  2. vindicating
  3. justifying
  4. apologizing
Grant exemption or release to
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. exempting
  2. remitting
  3. pardoning
  4. condoning
  5. relieving
Accept an excuse for
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. pardoning

Excusing Sentence Examples

  • End the conversation by excusing yourself.

  • If the skeleton dated back to the 1960's, as they were now beginning to believe, all the current players—the four Dawkinses, stepmother Jenny Radisson, and even Fitzgerald—would have barely been born, thereby excusing them from any direct culpability.

  • On the morning of January 15, five days only after the adoption of Piso, Otho attended as usual to pay his respects to the emperor, and then hastily excusing himself on the score of private business hurried from the Palatine to meet his accomplices.

  • In 1874 the university of Göttingen granted her a degree in absentia, excusing her from the oral examination on account of the remarkable excellence of the three dissertations sent in, one of which, on the theory of partial differential equations, is one of her most remarkable works.

  • The Los Angeles School District has estimated that 10 percent of its students are absent each day and that only 5 percent return with written notes from home excusing the absence.

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Excusing Is Also Mentioned In

  • excuse
  • palliative
  • apologetic
  • condonation
  • excusal
  • exculpatory
  • breach of contract
  • aegrotat

Words near Excusing in the Thesaurus

  • excusable
  • excusably
  • excuse
  • excuse-me
  • excused
  • excuses
  • excusing
  • exec
  • execrable
  • execrate
  • execrated
  • execrates
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