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| justify | |
| 1. v. To provide an acceptable explanation for. |  |
| How can you justify spending so much money on clothes? | |
| Paying too much for car insurance is not justified. | |
| 2. v. To be a good, acceptable reason for; warrant. | |
| Nothing can justify your rude behaviour last night. | |
| 3. v. To arrange (text) on a page or a computer screen such that the left and right ends of all lines within paragraphs are aligned. | |
| The text will look better justified. | |
| 4. v. To absolve, and declare to be free of blame or sin. | |
| 5. v. (reflexive) To give reasons for one’s actions; to make an argument to prove that one is in the right. | |
| She felt no need to justify herself for deciding not to invite him. | |
| 6. v. To prove; to ratify; to confirm. | |
| 7. v. (legal) To show (a person) to have had a sufficient legal reason for an act that has been made the subject of a charge or accusation. | |
| 8. v. (legal) To qualify (oneself) as a surety by taking oath to the ownership of sufficient property. | |
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