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- pronunciation:
- juh
stih
faI
- features:
- Word Parts
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verb |
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justifies, justifying, justified |
| definition: |
When you justify something that happened, you think of good reasons for why it happened. You try to make it OK that it happened. If you justify something you want to do, you think of good reasons for why you should do it.
I justified eating the last piece of pie by saying that it would be thrown away otherwise.- similar words:
- account, authorize, defend, explain, support, uphold
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| related words: |
establish, maintain |
| derivation: |
justified (adj.) |
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