0 past simple and past participle of excuse --
1 to forgive someone: --
Excuse me but aren't you forgetting something?
Excuse me, can I just get past?
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.
I asked the teacher if I could be excused from (= allowed not to do) hockey practice as my knee still hurt.
We cannot excuse him for these crimes.
No amount of financial recompense can excuse the way in which the company carried out its policy.
It is common to say of examples like this that in most circumstances he would at least be excused for saving his own daughter.
Participants would be excused from the study if this criterion was not reached within 24 trials.
The 1639 charter excused clerks 'from all offices, unless they desire or yield themselves thereunto'; such offices would presumably have been both civic and parochial.
Yet, given the low expectations for this president, his per formance was excused.
But then, their permissiveness is even graver, for they cannot be excused on the basis of ignorance.
If the wet-nurse was perceived as too poor, the fee was excused.
By doing so, adults are excused from judgment, blame, and responsibility.
Excused acts, by contrast, remain wrongful, and thus the grounds for exoneration must operate by way of mercy rather than right.
