Excuse vs Involve - What's the difference?
excuse | involve |
To forgive; to pardon.
* Shakespeare
* Archbishop Sharp
To allow to leave.
To provide an excuse for; to explain, with the aim of alleviating guilt or negative judgement.
To relieve of an imputation by apology or defense; to make apology for as not seriously evil; to ask pardon or indulgence for.
* Bible, 2. Corinthians xii. 19
An explanation designed to avoid or alleviate guilt or negative judgment.
(legal) A defense to a criminal or civil charge wherein the accused party admits to doing acts for which legal consequences would normally be appropriate, but asserts that special circumstances relieve that party of culpability for having done those acts.
An example.(attention)
To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.
* (John Milton)
To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide; to involve in darkness or obscurity.
* (John Milton)
To complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical structure.
* (John Locke)
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, chapter=17 To connect with something as a natural or logical consequence or effect; to include necessarily; to imply.
* (John Milton)
* Tillotson
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, title= To take in; to gather in; to mingle confusedly; to blend or merge.
* (Alexander Pope)
* (John Milton)
To envelop, enfold, entangle, or embarrass.
To engage thoroughly; to occupy, employ, or absorb.
* Sir (Walter Scott)
(mathematics) To raise to any assigned power; to multiply, as a quantity, into itself a given number of times.
As verbs the difference between excuse and involve
is that excuse is while involve is to roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.excuse
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Verb
(excus)- I excused him his transgressions.
- I must excuse what cannot be amended.
- A man's persuasion that a thing is duty, will not excuse him from guilt in practising it, if really and indeed it be against God's law.
- May I be excused from the table?
- I excused myself from the proceedings to think over what I'd heard.
- You know he shouldn't have done it, so don't try to excuse his behavior!
- Think ye that we excuse ourselves to you?
Synonyms
* forgive, let off the hook, let pass, pardon, unguiltDerived terms
* excuse me * excuse my FrenchNoun
(en noun)- Tell me why you were late – and I don't want to hear any excuses !
- That thing is a poor excuse for a gingerbread man. Hasn't anyone taught you how to bake?
- He's a sorry excuse of a doctor.
Usage notes
* We often say to make an excuse.Synonyms
* (explanation designed to avoid or alleviate guilt or negative judgment ): pretextExternal links
* * English heteronyms ----involve
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Alternative forms
* envolveVerb
(involv)- Some of serpent kind involved / Their snaky folds.
- And leave a singèd bottom all involved / With stench and smoke.
- Involved discourses.
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- He knows / His end with mine involved .
- The contrary necessarily involves a contradiction.
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- The gathering number, as it moves along, / Involves a vast involuntary throng.
- Earth with hell / To mingle and involve .
- Involved in a deep study.