apologize
apologize is a 9-letter English word with 5 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To make an apology or defense. Face value is 21 in Scrabble and 24 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- intransitive verb. To make an apology or defense.
- intransitive verb. To make an apology or excuse; to make acknowledgment of some fault or offense, with expression of regret for it, by way of amends; -- with for; as, my correspondent apologized for not answering my letter.
- transitive verb. To defend.
- verb. acknowledge faults or shortcomings or failing
"I apologized for being late"
"He apologized for the many typoes"
- verb. defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning
"rationalize the child's seemingly crazy behavior"
"he rationalized his lack of success"
Synonyms
apologise, excuse, justify, rationalise, rationalize
Common word forms
apologized, apologizer, apologizes, apologizing
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