Synset

serve as a reason or cause or justification of
<verb.communication> freq. cnt.: 9 freq. cnt.: 7 freq. cnt.: 2

"Your need to sleep late does not excuse your late arrival at work"
"Her recent divorce may explain her reluctance to date again"

Something ----s something

Something ----s something

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

semantic pointers

hypernym

hyponym