alibi

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

I - noun

1. (law) a defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question (Freq. 2)
• Topics:
law, jurisprudence
• Hypernyms:
defense, defence, vindication
2. 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
• Syn:
excuse, exculpation, self-justification
• Derivationally related forms:
excuse (for: excuse)
• Hypernyms:
defense, defence, vindication
• Hyponyms:
extenuation, mitigation

II - verb

exonerate by means of an alibi
• Hypernyms:
excuse, explain
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s something

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  excuse, exculpation, self-justification