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Crouse
- noun - United States playwright (1893-1966)
Defuse
- verb - remove the triggering device from
Disuse
- noun - the state of something that has been unused and neglected; "the house was in a terrible state of neglect"
Effuse
- verb - flow or spill forth
- give out or emit (also metaphorically); "The room effuses happiness"
- pour out; "effused brine"
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
Grouse
- noun - complain; "What was he hollering about?"
- flesh of any of various grouse of the family Tetraonidae; usually roasted; flesh too dry to broil
- hunt grouse
- popular game bird having a plump body and feathered legs and feet
Hemuse
- - The roebuck in its third year.
In Use
- adjective - (of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (`engaged' is a British term for a busy telephone line); "her line is busy"; "receptionists' telephones are always engaged"; "the lavatory is in use"; "kept getting a busy signal"
- currently being used; "robots are in use throughout industry"
Incuse
- - Cut or stamped in, or hollowed out by engraving.