Word Type

Verb

Noun

The word "excuse" can be used as verb and noun.

Word Relationships

Causes Desire

have party

Derived Terms

'scuse XQs abuse excuse blind excuse excusability excusal excuse me excuse my French excuse my français excuse you excuseflation excuseless excusingly please excuse my dear Aunt Sally unexcused unexcusing

Context

legal

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

absolve ask for bespeak billet call for defence defend defense example fend for forgive free illustration instance justify line note quest representative request short letter support vindicate vindication

Type Of (IsA)

defense explanation note

Manner Of

absolve forgive justify request

Related Terms

rationalization

Related Terms

apology ate civil criminal culpability dog dog ate example explain explanation forgive good good manners good reason inferior manners not obligation pardon quality reason reason for reason not school sorry sort sort of substandard wrongdoing

Synonym Network

apologize apology forgive pretext

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.