What is the meaning of excused?

verb

• Accept an excuse for.
  • usage: "Please excuse my dirty hands"
  • synonyms: excuse, pardon
• Grant exemption or release to.
  • usage: "Please excuse me from this class"
  • synonyms: excuse, relieve, let off, exempt
• Serve as a reason or cause or justification of.
  • usage: "Your need to sleep late does not excuse your late arrival at work"; "Her recent divorce may explain her reluctance to date again"
  • synonyms: excuse, explain
• Defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning.
  • usage: "rationalize the child's seemingly crazy behavior"; "he rationalized his lack of success"
  • synonyms: apologize, apologise, excuse, justify, rationalize, rationalise
• Ask for permission to be released from an engagement.
  • synonyms: excuse, beg off
• Excuse, overlook, or make allowances for; be lenient with.
  • usage: "excuse someone's behavior"; "She condoned her husband's occasional infidelities"
  • synonyms: excuse, condone

adjective

• Granted exemption.
  • usage: "one of the excused jurors planned to write a book"