Meaning of escusar | Babel Free

Definitions

1. to excuse
   transitive
2. to not need something, to avoid
   transitive
3. to be unnecessary
   intransitive

Examples

“Quen ao sementar é mesquiño, pr'a seitura escusa fouciño”

The one who is miserable sowing, won't need a sickle for the harvest.

“O que ben almorza escusa o xantar”

The one who eats a good breakfast does not need dinner.

“o que á de seer nõ se pode escusar, quer uena a torto, quer a dereyto”

You can't avoid the future, now if it comes crooked, now if it's right

“Et demays foron buscar todos los outros coengos [...] et trouxeronnos por força et contra suas voontades et enssarraronnos con os outros enno dito thesouro [...] Et esteueron aly por espacio de noue dias [...] Et os uellos et fraquos que non podian sayr, ouueron de fazer dentro enno dito thesouro aquello que he nescessario et se non pode escussar.”

they went to fetch every other canon … and they brought them forcibly and against their wills and they locked them inside the treasury room … And they were there for nine days … And the elders and the weak ones, that couldn't get out, were forced to do inside the treasure that which is necessary and can't be avoided.

“escusades de xurá-lo que volo creo mui ben”

You don't need to swear it, because I really believe you

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