Dictionary Entry
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.
9 letters · Scrabble 21 · Words With Friends 24 · 5 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
To make an apology or defense.
- 2intransitive 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.
- 3transitive verb
To defend.
- 4verb
acknowledge faults or shortcomings or failing
"I apologized for being late"
"He apologized for the many typoes"
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- 5verb
defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning
"rationalize the child's seemingly crazy behavior"
"he rationalized his lack of success"
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