justify
Từ điển Collocation
justify verb
ADV. really, truly Can you really justify the destruction of such a fine old building? | hardly The meagre result hardly justified the risks they took to get it.
VERB + JUSTIFY can/could | attempt to, seek to, try to | need to | be difficult to, be hard to He found it very difficult to justify his decision.
PREP. on the grounds of/that The decision is justified on the grounds that there is no realistic alternative. | to How will you justify this pay cut to your employees?
Từ điển WordNet
v.
- show to be reasonable or provide adequate ground for; warrant
The emergency does not warrant all of us buying guns
The end justifies the means
- show to be right by providing justification or proof; vindicate
vindicate a claim
- defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning; apologize, apologise, excuse, rationalize, rationalise
rationalize the child's seemingly crazy behavior
he rationalized his lack of success
- let off the hook; absolve, free
I absolve you from this responsibility
- adjust the spaces between words
justify the margins
Microsoft Computer Dictionary
vb. 1. To align vertically. 2. To align lines of text evenly along both the left and right margins of a column by inserting extra space between the words in each line. If the spacing is excessive, it can be reduced by rewriting or by hyphenating words at the ends of lines. See also align (definition 1). Compare rag.
English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary
justifies|justified|justifying
ant.: condemn
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