• v.
    ⦿serve as a reason or cause or justification of
    lexical concept
  • Her recent divorce may explain her reluctance to date again
  • Your need to sleep late does not excuse your late arrival at work

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechverb
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:excuse
  2. enl:explain
wn:interlingual indexili:i26084

Other

skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:label
  • explain
  • excuseexplain