Defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning
English: apologize, apologise, excuse, justify, rationalize, rationalise
Bahasa: alasan, membenarkan, menghalalkan, berdalih, berkilah, merasionalisasi, menyungguhkan, menashihkan
merasionalkanBahasa Indonesia
rationalise, rationalize, apologise, apologize, cut
Rare
#89,129 of the corpus · 0.1 per million words · 581 occurrences
From rasional (meN-…-kan) · less common, #5,130
Verb
Weed out unwanted or unnecessary things
English: cut, prune, rationalize, rationalise
Bahasa: mengurangi, memangkas, memendekkan, menyadau
Less certain link between this word and this sense.