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Effuse
- verb - flow or spill forth
- give out or emit (also metaphorically); "The room effuses happiness"
- pour out; "effused brine"
Elapse
- verb - pass by; "three years elapsed"
Embase
- - To bring down or lower, as in position, value, etc.; to debase; to degrade; to deteriorate.
Encase
- verb - enclose in, or as if in, a case; "my feet were encased in mud"
Everse
- - To overthrow or subvert.
Excise
- noun - a tax that is measured by the amount of business done (not on property or income from real estate)
- levy an excise tax on
- remove by cutting; "The surgeon excised the tumor"
- remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line; "Please strike this remark from the record"; "scratch that remark"
Excuse
- noun - a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc.; "he kept finding excuses to stay"; "every day he had a new alibi for not getting a job"; "his transparent self-justification was unacceptable"
- a note explaining an absence; "he had to get his mother to write an excuse for him"
- a poor example; "it was an apology for a meal"; "a poor excuse for an automobile"
- 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
Expose
- noun - 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;
- Reveal
- the exposure of an impostor or a fraud; "he published an expose of the graft and corruption in city government"
- to show, make visible or apparent;