Apologize

Definition: Apologize

Apologize

Verb

1. Acknowledge faults or shortcomings or failing; "I apologized for being late"; "He apologized for the many typoes".

2. Defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning; "rationalize the child's seemingly crazy behavior"; "he rationalized his lack of success".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "apologize" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Satire

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Synonyms: Apologize

Atonement

Apologize, beg pardon, fair l'amende honorable, give satisfaction; come down on one's knees, fall down on one's knees, down on one's marrow bones.

Vindication

Extenuate, palliate, excuse, soften, apologize, varnish, slur, gloze; put a gloss, put a good face upon; mince; gloss over, bolster up, help a lame dog over a stile.

Crosswords: Apologize

I would like to take this opportunity to apologize in advance (The Iron Giant; writing credit: Brad Bird)

Jaffe, apologize to Mr. McDowell (Coming to America; writing credit: David Sheffield)

All right, all right, I apologize. (A Fish Called Wanda; writing credit: John Cleese.)

You shoot me in a dream, you'd better wake up and apologize. (Reservoir Dogs; writing credit: Quentin Tarantino)

The prince tried to apologize but it was too late, for she had seen that there was no kindness in his heart (Beauty and the Beast; writing credit: Roger Allers; Kelly Asbury)

Girl I apologize (Never Keeping Secrets; performing artist: Babyface; writing credit: Babyface)

Closed Your Eyes I Apologize (Southern Nights; performing artist: GLEN CAMPBELL)

As the man, I apologize for my dad (Anything; performing artist: Jay-Z)

Deep down inside, I apologize (Before You Walk Out My Life; performing artist: Monica)

I apologize a trillion times (Ms. Jackson; performing artist: Outkast)

The best way to have the last word is to apologize. (references; author: unknown)

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Books

• A Time for Breaking Hearts: I Don't Accuse, I Don't Defend, I Don't Apologize, I Report (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• I Apologize [CD-SINGLE] (reference)

• Lord, I Apologize [CAST RECORDING] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Civil Liberties

Slovak Republic

In 1992 a court ordered poet Lubomir Feldek to apologize to former government minister Dusan Slobodnik for describing him unfavorably in a poem and fined him. (references)

Poland

In May 2000, the Warsaw district court ruled that the daily newspaper, Zycie, must apologize to President Aleksander Kwasniewski for publishing untrue information suggesting that the President had contacts with Russian spies. (references)

Liberia

Security personnel sometimes interpreted criticism as a license to harass, threaten, arrest, and even assault targeted persons; the Government often required journalists it had arrested to apologize in writing prior to releasing them. (references)

Human Rights

Ghana

No weapons or ammunition were found, and the IGP directed the Western Regional Police Commander to apologize to the chief. (references)

Malaysia

For example, Attorney Zainur Zakaria was convicted in 1998 by the High Court for contempt of court after refusing to apologize for filing a brief on behalf of his client, Anwar Ibrahim. (references)

Turkey

Former HRA Chairman Akin Birdal remained on trial for alleged statements in September 2000 that the Government "should apologize for the Armenian genocide," a statement that he denies making. (references)

Indigenous People

Chile

The Government was preparing a response to a 1999 suggestion from the U.N. Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination that the Government apologize to and compensate indigenous people for their historical treatment, and explicitly outlaw racial and ethnic discrimination. (references)

Political Rights

Jamaica

The opposition party was forced to apologize when its supporters looted the convenience store of the campaign manager for a third party candidate. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "apologize": apologize oneself. Additional references.

Arabic 

‏إعتذر (apologise, beg, eat one's words, excuse), ‏دافع (advocate, assert, buckler, champion, cushion, defend, guard, guard against, hold off, impetus, impulse, impulsive, inducement, motive, object, payer, projectile, propellant, propeller, propulsive, repulsive, score, stand for, stick up for, urge, vindicate). (various references)

Bulgarian 

моля за извинение, извинявам се (give an excuse, justify oneself). (various references)

Chinese 

道歉 (Apologies, apologise, Apologized, Apologizing, Apology), 歉 (deficient, to regret). (various references)

Croatian

isprièavam (excuse). (various references)

Czech

omlouvat se (give an excuse). (various references)

Danish

undskylde sig. (various references)

Dutch

zich verontschuldigen. (various references)

Esperanto

senkulpigi sin, ekskuzi sin. (various references)

Farsi 

پوزش خواستن , معذرت خواستن (Excuse, Pardon), عذرخواهی کردن . (various references)

Finnish

puolustella. (various references)

French

s'excuser, pardonner, faire des excuses, excuser. (various references)

German

sich entschuldigen (ask to be excused, excuse oneself, to apologize), entschuldigen (absolve, exculpate, excuse, extenuate, forgive, pardon, to apologize, to exculpate, to excuse). (various references)

Greek 

ζητώ συγνώμη (apologise, make an apology), απολογούμαι. (various references)

Hebrew 

להצטדק (justify oneself), לבקש סליחה. (various references)

Hungarian

bocsánatot kér (apologise, to apologize, to ask for pardon, to offer an apology). (various references)

Icelandic

afsaka sig, biðja afsökunar. (various references)

Indonesian

mohon maaf, minta maaf (excuse), istighfar (to ask a person's forgiveness). (various references)

Italian

scusarsi (apologise, regret), scusare (excuse, extenuate, forgive, justify, justify oneself, make one's excuses, pardon). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

謝る　 (to apologize), 謝る (to apologize), 詫び入る (to apologize sincerely), 詫びる (to apologize), 詫る (to apologize), 直謝る (to earnestly apologize), 久濶を叙す (to apologize for a long neglect of friends). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きゅうかつをじょす (to apologize for a long neglect of friends), ひたあやまる (to earnestly apologize), わびいる (to apologize sincerely), わびる (to apologize, to be grieved, to be worried, to pine for, to worry), あやまる (to apologize, to make a mistake). (various references)

Korean 

사과하십시요 (apologise). (various references)

Norwegian

unnskylde seg. (various references)

Papiamen

diskulpá (excuse), despensá. (various references)

Pig Latin

apologizeay.(various references)

Portuguese

pedir desculpas, desculpe-se, desculpar-se, desculpar (condone, exculpate, excuse, forgave, forgive, instantiate, justify, make allowance for, palliate, pardon). (various references)

Romanian

a-şi cere scuze (eat one's words), scuza (absolve, condone, excuse, forgive, gloze, justify, pardon), ierta (absolve, acquit, allow, condone, excuse, forgive, pardon, permit, remise, remit, shrive, spare). (various references)

Russian 

извиняться (apologise, make offer an apology, offer an apology). (various references)

Sepedi

phophotha (to apologize). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

izviniti se. (various references)

Sicilian

scusarisi (to apologize). (various references)

Spanish

disculparse (beg off). (various references)

Swedish

be om ursäkt (allege, apologise, ask forgiveness, excuse oneself). (various references)

Thai

แก้ต่าง (apologise), ขอโทษ (apologise, sorry). (various references)

Turkish

af dilemek (beg pardon of, pray), özür dilemek (ask pardon, make amends, make an excuse, offer an excuse). (various references)

Turkmen 

цtunmenk. (various references)

Ukrainian

вибачатися (excuse oneself), захищати (advocate, assert, bield, bonnet, champion, cover, defend, fight, overshade, overshadow, protect, shelter, shield, stand by, stand up for, stick up for), перепрошувати. (various references)

Welsh

ymesgusodi (excuse oneself), ymddiheuro, diheuro (excuse). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "apologize": apologized, apologizer, apologizers, apologizes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Apologize" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: apalogize, apolagize, apolgize, apoligise, apoligize, apollogize, apologi, Apologie, apologizee, apoloize, apolojize, apolozize, applogize, appollogize, appologise, appologize, pologize. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: zooglea.

-3 letters: apolog, epilog, epizoa, goalie.

-4 letters: agile, azole, galop, gazoo, glaze, gloze, igloo, logia, logoi, looie, pilea, plage, polio, zoeal.

-5 letters: agio, aloe, egal, gale, gaol, gape, gaze, glia, glop, goal, goop, ilea, laze, leap, lipa, lipe, loge, logo, loop, lope, ogle, olea, oleo, olio, ooze, opal, page, pail, pale, peag, peal, pial.

+1 letter: apologized, apologizer, apologizes.

+2 letters: apologizers.

+5 letters: paleozoologies, paleozoologist.