Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To shake off or out; get rid of.
- To discuss; unfold; decipher.
- To seize and detain by law, as goods.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To shake off; to discard.
- transitive verb rare To inspect; to investigate; to decipher.
- transitive verb obsolete To seize and detain by law, as goods.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To shake off.
- verb To examine (a document).
- verb To
decipher . - verb law To seize and detain by law.
- verb law To proceed against a principal debtor where there are either joint debtors or debtors and sureties.
Etymologies
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Examples
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I've been in on more than one of these blogpiles, sometimes out of passion and sometimes aout of dtrategy, and I make no excuss for either motivation, because the wingnuts have done so much worse.
Solzhenitsyn Biographer: Cross-In-Dirt Gulag Story Never Happened 2009
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What a miserable excuss for a man let alone a president.
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In the bunker is not a place for Bobby to stay, and he always has the excuss that he didn't know it, and Bobby is the first Taft ever seen, that landed one out of bunker with six divits.
Enough is Enough!!!! Nathaniel Livingston 2005
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Including using his dying grandmother as an excuss.
Army Rumour Service 2010
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Including using his dying grandmother as an excuss.
Army Rumour Service 2010
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Including using his dying grandmother as an excuss.
Army Rumour Service 2010
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Including using his dying grandmother as an excuss.
Army Rumour Service 2010
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My excuss being that I lie outside the demographic.
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Including using his dying grandmother as an excuss.
Army Rumour Service 2010
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Including using his dying grandmother as an excuss.
Army Rumour Service 2010
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