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We found 38 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word excuse:
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General (30 matching dictionaries)

1. excuse: Merriam-Webster.com [home, info]
2. excuse, excuse: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries [home, info]
3. excuse: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
4. excuse: Collins English Dictionary [home, info]
5. excuse: Vocabulary.com [home, info]
6. excuse, excuse: Macmillan Dictionary [home, info]
7. Excuse, excuse: Wordnik [home, info]
8. excuse: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info]
9. excuse: Wiktionary [home, info]
10. excuse: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
11. excuse: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
12. excuse: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
13. excuse: Dictionary.com [home, info]
14. excuse (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
15. excuse: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
16. excuse: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
17. Excuse (legal), Excuse: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
18. Excuse: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
19. excuse: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
20. excuse: Rhymezone [home, info]
21. Excuse, excuse (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
22. excuse: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
23. Excuse: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898) [home, info]
24. excuse: Free Dictionary [home, info]
25. excuse: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
26. excuse: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
27. excuse: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
28. excuse: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

Business (4 matching dictionaries)

29. excuse: Webster's New World Law Dictionary [home, info]
30. excuse: Glossary of Legal Terms [home, info]
31. EXCUSE: Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition [home, info]
32. excuse: Legal dictionary [home, info]

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

33. excuse: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

34. excuse: online medical dictionary [home, info]

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

35. excuse: Idioms [home, info]

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

36. The Excuse, excuse: Urban Dictionary [home, info]

(Note: See excusing for more definitions.)

Quick definitions from Macmillan ( ) Provided by Quick definitions from WordNet (excuse) ▸ noun:  a note explaining an absence ("He had to get his mother to write an excuse for him") ▸ noun:  a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc. ("He kept finding excuses to stay") ▸ noun:  a poor example ("A poor excuse for an automobile") ▸ verb:  excuse, overlook, or make allowances for; be lenient with ("Excuse someone's behavior") ▸ verb:  serve as a reason or cause or justification of ("Your need to sleep late does not excuse your late arrival at work") ▸ verb:  grant exemption or release to ("Please excuse me from this class") ▸ verb:  ask for permission to be released from an engagement ▸ verb:  accept an excuse for ("Please excuse my dirty hands") ▸ verb:  defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning ▸ Also see excusing ▸ Word origin ▸ Words similar to excuse ▸ Usage examples for excuse ▸ Idioms related to excuse (New!) ▸ Popular adjectives describing excuse ▸ Words that often appear near excuse ▸ Rhymes of excuse ▸ Invented words related to excuse