apologizes
UK spellingapologises
- 1Third-person singular simple present of apologize.
The manager apologizes to customers whenever a delivery arrives late.
Whenever he forgets a name, he apologizes and asks for it again.
Note
The -ize spelling here is the American one, and it is also Oxford's house style for British English; other British writing tends to spell the verb with -s-. The verb is intransitive, so it takes no direct object: someone apologizes to a person, for a fault. An older, now dated meaning also belongs to this form, which is to argue in defense of a cause, as an apologist does.
apologizes is a form of apologize
apologize, verb: To acknowledge a fault or offense and express regret for it, often as a way of making amends. Full entry
- Forms
- apologizeapologizes he/she/itapologizing -ing formapologized past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- apologize → apologizes: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪz/, an extra syllable.
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