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单词 glozing (over)
释义

glozing (over)

verb

present participle of gloze (over)
1
as in explaining away
to make (something) seem less bad by offering excuses he tried to gloze over his drinking problem by noting that he had never done drugs

Synonyms & Similar Words

Relevance
  • explaining away
  • glossing (over)
  • explaining
  • excusing
  • justifying
  • deodorizing
  • extenuating
  • whitewashing
  • palliating
  • playing down
  • accounting (for)
  • minimizing
  • confessing
  • varnishing
  • sugarcoating
  • apologizing
  • atoning
  • rationalizing
  • mitigating
  • alleviating
  • softening
  • lightening
  • lessening
  • tempering
  • moderating
  • easing
  • exonerating
  • exculpating
  • vindicating
  • absolving
  • acquitting
  • soft-pedaling
  • clearing
2
as in ignoring
to dismiss as of little importance we're certainly willing to gloze over a couple of minor historical inaccuracies in an otherwise splendid movie

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • ignoring
  • forgiving
  • overlooking
  • passing over
  • shrugging off
  • papering over
  • explaining
  • glossing (over)
  • justifying
  • pardoning
  • winking (at)
  • blinking (at)
  • forgiving and forgetting
  • brushing (aside or off)
  • disregarding
  • closing one's eyes to
  • excusing
  • discounting
  • condoning
  • whitewashing
  • remitting
  • overpassing
  • rationalizing
  • waving (aside or off)
  • exonerating
  • exculpating
  • vindicating
  • absolving
  • waiving
  • acquitting
  • clearing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • objecting (to)
  • marking
  • noting
  • heeding
  • minding
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