Excuse is valid Scrabble Word

Is excuse a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is excuse valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

6 letters word
15 points in Scrabble
17 points in WWF

Definitions for EXCUSE in dictionary:

VERB:

to free from blame or guilt
seek to lessen the blame attaching to (a fault or offence); try to justify
forgive (someone) for a fault or offence
overlook or make allowances for
(of a fact) serve to mitigate (a person or act)
release (someone) from a duty or requirement
(used in polite formulas) allow (someone) to leave a room or gathering
say politely that one is leaving
(used by school pupils) be allowed to leave the room, especially to go to the toilet
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 exculpate; to absolve; to acquit.

To pardon, as a fault; to forgive entirely, or to admit to be little censurable, and to overlook; as, we excuse irregular conduct, when extraordinary circumstances appear to justify it.
To regard with indulgence; to view leniently or to overlook; to pardon.
To free from an impending obligation or duty; hence, to disengage; to dispense with; to release by favor; also, to remit by favor; not to exact; as, to excuse a forfeiture.
To relieve of an imputation by apology or defense; to make apology for as not seriously evil; to ask pardon or indulgence for.
The act of excusing, apologizing, exculpating, pardoning, releasing, and the like; acquittal; release; absolution; justification; extenuation.
That which is offered as a reason for being excused; a plea offered in extenuation of a fault or irregular deportment; apology; as, an excuse for neglect of duty; excuses for delay of payment.
That which excuses; that which extenuates or justifies a fault.
accept an excuse for
grant exemption or release to
serve as a reason or cause or justification of
defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning
ask for permission to be released from an engagement
excuse, overlook, or make allowances for; be lenient with
put forward a reason or justification for (a fault etc)

NOUN:

a reason or explanation given to justify a fault or offence
a reason put forward to conceal the real reason for an action; a pretext
a note written by a doctor or parent excusing a pupil from school.
a poor or inadequate example of
explanation offered to justify (a fault etc)
a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc.
a note explaining an absence
a poor example

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to apologize for

Words related to EXCUSE

essoin6 excusable20 excusableness24 excusably23 excusal16 excusals17 excused17 excuser16 excusers17 excuses16 excusing18 scuse7

Words that contain EXCUSE

excused17 excuser16 excuses16 excusers17 unexcused19

How to use EXCUSE in a sentence

I saw him make an excuse to his host, and then open it and read it.
But I must ask you to excuse me from giving my reasons for wishing to find your cousin, and for coming to see him here.
The head cook, who did the honours, pleaded in excuse for all this discomfort, that they happened this voyage to be short of servants.
One day she invented some excuse for her absence from Winiston House, and started on her expedition, strong with the love that makes the weakest heart brave.
In the year 1882, events happened in Egypt which gave England an excuse for interfering with the government of that country.
As far as I have any excuse it lies in my miserable health.
Asking our silent friend to excuse us, he led me into an adjoining chamber.
They sat there wondering how they had dared to bid for that brown tail coat, how they had dared to buy it, even to touch it, they sat there silent without a single excuse.
You will be prevented by one excuse or another from meeting the lady till the wedding-day.
Today, however, there is no excuse for any man not saving a certain amount of his earnings no matter how small it may be.

Break forth into song whenever the slightest excuse appears.
Erring through the love of a man is my only excuse and, oh, I am the one to bear the blame.
Whether the suspicion were well or ill founded, it constituted a poor excuse for depriving a citizen of his liberty without legal warrant and without proof.
I mention our great sins not in order to excuse but to accuse my people.
Yet to you, who of all men living are the most forgiving, I need not excuse the concern I feel.
She had not meant to be deserted, but had hoped to secure Ruth for her companion, she not having the excuse of wishing to report the meetings to call her to them.
I have decided that the best plan will be for you to be sent somewhere by me, to make a real thing of the excuse.
My cousin fair, dear Mary B, Excuse my long neglect I pray, And pardon too, the homely strain, In which I sing this rustic lay.
I once more excuse myself in point of exactness for want of books.
Even if this family, the Braithwaites, are put off, I am still afraid that some excuse may be found for disappointing us.
He told me afterwards how fortunate he felt it to be that he was able to make a real excuse.

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