verb
- Show to be reasonable or provide adequate ground for.
- usage: "The emergency does not warrant all of us buying guns"; "The end justifies the means"
- Show to be right by providing justification or proof.
- usage: "vindicate a claim"
- Defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning.
- usage: "rationalize the child's seemingly crazy behavior"; "he rationalized his lack of success"
- synonyms: apologize, apologise, excuse, justify, rationalize, rationalise
- Let off the hook.
- usage: "I absolve you from this responsibility"
- Adjust the spaces between words.
- usage: "justify the margins"
- synonyms: justify
adjective
- Having words so spaced that lines have straight even margins. .
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