Apologize: alternatives and connections

To of or admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in; as, to acknowledge the being of a God.

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To ward or fend off; to drive back or away; to repel.

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To know again; to perceive the identity of, with a person or thing previously known; to recover or recall knowledge of.

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To bear by being under; to keep from falling; to uphold; to sustain, in a literal or physical sense; to prop up; to bear the weight of; as, a pillar…

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A property depending on the relations of light to the eye, by which individual and specific differences in the hues and tints of objects are apprehen…

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See Color.

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To make thin or slender; to draw out so as to lessen the thickness.

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Brightness or luster of a body proceeding from a smooth surface; polish; as, the gloss of silk; cloth is calendered to give it a gloss.

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To make less severe, intense, harsh, rigorous, painful, etc.; to soften; to meliorate; to alleviate; to diminish; to lessen; as, to mitigate heat or…

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Covered with a mant/e; cloaked; disguised.

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of Plead

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Something said or written in defense or justification of what appears to others wrong, or of what may be liable to disapprobation; justification; as,…

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Something said or written in defense or justification of what appears to others wrong, or of what may be liable to disapprobation; justification; as,…

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To of or admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in; as, to acknowledge the being of a God.

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To suffer to enter; to grant entrance, whether into a place, or into the mind, or consideration; to receive; to take; as, they were into his house; t…

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To free from accusation, or the imputation of fault or blame; to clear from guilt; to release from a charge; to justify by extenuating a fault; to ex…

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To make rational; also, to convert to rationalism.

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