0 present participle of excuse
1 to forgive someone:
No amount of financial recompense can excuse the way in which the company carried out its policy.
We cannot excuse him for these crimes.
I asked the teacher if I could be excused from (= allowed not to do) hockey practice as my knee still hurt.
Please excuse me from (= allow me to miss) the rest of the meeting - I've just received a phone call that requires my immediate attention.
Excuse me, can I just get past?
Excuse me but aren't you forgetting something?
Please excuse my stomach rumbling - I haven't eaten all day.
I know you are tired, but I really can't excuse you for being so rude and selfish about this.
She is almost too kind - always excusing their bad behaviour instead of dealing with it firmly.
Her boss cannot excuse even the smallest error, although he himself is far from perfect.
Moreover, measuring the extent of a person's desert of punishment requires addressing difficult epistemological questions about excusing and mitigating circumstances.
None can be considered ' revisionist ' in elucidating an apologia for colonialism or in excusing sins of commission and omission for which the colonialists bore responsibility.
Sandwiched between two traps- being soft on crime and excusing riot-related violence-liberals had to forgo their ideal outcomes and moved closer to the conservative position.
