Open Multilingual Wordnet 1.3

00896803-v 'show to be reasonable or provide adequate ground for'; V2;

English	justify ₁₇ ( ⊳ ⊳ ⊳ ⊳ ⊳ ⊳ ) , warrant ₁₂
Indonesian	menghalalkan , menjamin , membenarkan , menyungguhkan , alasan , menashihkan , dasar
Japanese	正当化 , 正当付ける , 正当化+する

Definitions

Indonesian: membela diri atas sesuatu tuduhan
Japanese: 十ん分な根拠を提供するまたは論理性を示す
― 緊急に事態でも銃を買うことを保障しない; 目的は手段を正当化する
English: show to be reasonable or provide adequate ground for
― The emergency does not warrant all of us buying guns; The end justifies the means

Relations

Hypernym:	confirm
Semantic Field:	communication_v

Verb Frames

Something ----s something;

External Links

TempoWN: ◁ △ ▷ (Past: 0.000; Present: 0.034; Future: 0.000)

SentiWN: △ ▽ (+0.00 -0.00) MLSentiCon: ▲ ▼ (+0.25 -0.12)