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Excusing
- verb - accept an excuse for; "Please excuse my dirty hands"
- ask for permission to be released from an engagement
- defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning; "rationalize the child's seemingly crazy behavior"; "he rationalized his lack of success"
- excuse, overlook, or make allowances for; be lenient with; "excuse someone's behavior"; "She condoned her husband's occasional infidelities"
- grant exemption or release to; "Please excuse me from this class"
- serve as a reason or cause or justification of; "Your need to sleep late does not excuse your late arrival at work"; "Her recent divorce may explain her reluctance to date again"
Exerting
- verb - have and exercise; "wield power and authority"
- make a great effort at a mental or physical task; "exert oneself"
- put to use; "exert one's power or influence"
Exhaling
- verb - expel air; "Exhale when you lift the weight"
- give out (breath or an odor); "The chimney exhales a thick smoke"
Exhuming
- verb - dig up a body
- dig up for reburial or for medical investigation; of dead bodies
Existing
- verb - existing in something specified; "depletion of the oxygen existing in the bloodstream"
- have an existence, be extant;
- having existence or being or actuality; "an attempt to refine the existent machinery to make it more efficient"; "much of the beluga caviar existing in the world is found in the Soviet Union and Iran"
- presently existing; "the existing system"
- support oneself; "he could barely exist on such a low wage"; "Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?"; "Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day"
Expiring
- verb - comes to an end
- Dying
- expel air; "Exhale when you lift the weight"
- lose validity; "My passports expired last month"
- pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "The children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102"
Exposing
- verb - abandon by leaving out in the open air;
- disclose to view as by removing a cover;
- expose or make accessible to some action or influence;
- expose to light, of photographic film
- expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas;
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret;
- put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position
- remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body;
- to show, make visible or apparent;
Extoling
- verb - praise, glorify, or honor; "extol the virtues of one's children"; "glorify one's spouse's cooking"
Exulting
- verb - feel extreme happiness or elation
- joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success; "rejoicing crowds filled the streets on VJ Day"; "a triumphal success"; "a triumphant shout"
- to express great joy; "Who cannot exult in Spring?"
Fagoting
- noun - embroidery in which groups of parallel threads are tied together with fagot stitches