0 present 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.
The old maxim about ignorance of the law excusing nobody should be applied.
The problem with this account is that the excusing effects of provocation and duress can also be explained in terms of their undermining a person's responsibility for his acts.
Berl himself hesitated, excusing himself on the insufficiency of information on which to base his judgement.
Both can reinforce illness behaviour by over-prescribing rest, encouraging medication use, giving misleading interpretations of symptoms, and endorsing a sick role by excusing school or providing sickness certification.
Delgado claims that if any one of these four excusing conditions held, the individual who committed a crime should be excused.
In other cases, anti-adaptationists committed the naturalistic fallacy and thought that adaptationists were excusing certain undesirable patterns of behavior when they claimed those behaviors were adaptations.
The causal abnormality must produce a genuine, independent excusing condition, such as irrationality, for a moral or legal excuse to obtain.
I always used to find a rational reason for excusing my deeds.
