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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun alibi has 2 senses
- alibi(n = noun.communication) - (law) a defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question; is a kind of defence, defense, vindication
- alibi(n = noun.communication) exculpation, excuse, self-justification - 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" is a kind of defence, defense, vindication
Derived form verb alibi1
has particulars: extenuation, mitigation
Derived form verb alibi1
Verb alibi has 1 sense
- alibi(v = verb.communication) - exonerate by means of an alibi; is one way to excuse, explain
Derived forms noun alibi1, noun alibi2
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something
CIDE DICTIONARY
alibi, n. [L., elsewhere, at another place. See Alias.].
The plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove that he was in another place when the alleged act was committed; as, to set up an alibi; to prove an alibi. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
alibi, n. & v.
--n.
1 a claim, or the evidence supporting it, that when an alleged act took place one was elsewhere.
2 disp. an excuse of any kind; a pretext or justification.
--v. (alibis, alibied, alibiing) colloq.
1 tr. provide an alibi or offer an excuse for (a person).
2 intr. provide an alibi.
--n.
1 a claim, or the evidence supporting it, that when an alleged act took place one was elsewhere.
2 disp. an excuse of any kind; a pretext or justification.
--v. (alibis, alibied, alibiing) colloq.
1 tr. provide an alibi or offer an excuse for (a person).
2 intr. provide an alibi.
Etymology
L, = elsewhere
THESAURUS
alibi
alibi out of, apologize for, apology, blind, cloak, color, cop-out, cover, cover story, cover with excuses, cover-up, device, excuse, explain, explanation, facade, feint, front, gloss, guise, handle, lame excuse, lie out of, likely story, locus standi, make apology for, mask, offer excuse for, ostensible motive, out, plea, plead ignorance, poor excuse, pretense, pretension, pretext, protestation, public motive, put-off, refuge, right, screen, semblance, sham, show, smoke screen, squirm out of, stalking-horse, stratagem, subterfuge, trick, varnish, veil, worm out ofROGET THESAURUS
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Absence
N absence, inexistence, nonresidence, absenteeism, nonattendance, alibi, emptiness, void, vacuum, vacuity, vacancy, tabula rasa, exemption, hiatus, lipotype, truant, absentee, nobody, nobody present, nobody on earth, not a soul, ame qui vive, absent, not present, away, nonresident, gone, from home, missing, lost, wanting, omitted, nowhere to be found, inexistence, empty, void, vacant, vacuous, untenanted, unoccupied, uninhabited, tenantless, barren, sterile, desert, deserted, devoid, uninhabitable, without, minus, nowhere, elsewhere, neither here nor there, in default of, sans, behind one's back, the bird has flown, non est inventus, absence makes the heart grow fonder, absent in body but present in spirit, absento nemo ne nocuisse velit, Achilles absent was Achilles still, aux absents les os, briller par son absence, conspicuous by his absence, in the hope to meet shortly again and make our abs.
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