1. Ask for permission to be released from an engagement
   - excuse

Derived forms: begged off, begs off, begging off

See also: beg

Type of: bespeak, call for, quest, request

• reforestation
• reforge
• reform
• Reform Jew
• Reform Judaism
• reform movement
• reform school
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• reformat
• reformation
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• refract
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• refracting telescope
• refraction
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• refractive index