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Excusers
- noun - a person who pardons or forgives or excuses a fault or offense
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"
Exossate
- - To deprive of bones; to take out the bones of; to bone.
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;
Exposits
- verb - add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing; "She elaborated on the main ideas in her dissertation"
- state; "set forth one's reasons"
Exposure
- noun - a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide; recorded by a camera on light-sensitive material
- abandoning without shelter or protection (as by leaving as infant out in the open)
- aspect resulting from the direction a building or window faces; "the studio had a northern exposure"
- presentation to view in an open or public manner; "the exposure of his anger was shocking"
- the act of exposing film to light
- the act of subjecting someone to an influencing experience; "she denounced the exposure of children to pornography"
- the disclosure of something secret; "they feared exposure of their campaign plans"
- the intensity of light falling on a photographic film or plate; "he used the wrong exposure"
- the state of being vulnerable or exposed; "his vulnerability to litigation"; "his exposure to ridicule"
- vulnerability to the elements; to the action of heat or cold or wind or r
Eye-Spot
- - A simple visual organ found in many invertebrates, consisting of pigment cells covering a sensory nerve termination. (b) An eyelike spot of color.
F.I.S.C.
- noun - a secret federal court created in 1978 by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act; responsible for authorizing wiretaps and other forms of electronic surveillance and for authorizing searches of suspected spies and terrorists by the Department of Justice or United States intelligence agencies
FAILSAFE
- unknown - 1 causing a piece of machinery to revert to a safe condition in the event of a breakdown or malfunction,
2 unlikely or unable to fail.,
3 a system or plan that comes into operation in the event of something going wrong or that is in place to prevent such
Famished
- verb - be hungry; go without food; "Let's eat--I'm starving!"
- deprive of food; "They starved the prisoners"
- die of food deprivation; "The political prisoners starved to death"; "Many famished in the countryside during the drought"
- extremely hungry; "they were tired and famished for food and sleep"; "a ravenous boy"; "the family was starved and ragged"; "fell into the esurient embrance of a predatory enemy"