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Verb: recuse  `ri'kyooz
  1. Disqualify oneself (as a judge) in a particular case
     
  2. Challenge or except to a judge as being incompetent or interested, in canon and civil law

Derived forms: recused, recuses, recusing

See also: recusant, recusation

Type of: disqualify, reject

Encyclopedia: Recuse