Exonerate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To free from blame.
  • v. To free from a responsibility, obligation, or task.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To relieve (someone or something) of a load; to unburden (a load).
  • v. Of a body of water, to discharge (oneself), empty oneself.
  • v. To free from an obligation, responsibility or task.
  • v. To free from accusation or blame.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To unload; to disburden; to discharge.
  • v. To relieve, in a moral sense, as of a charge, obligation, or load of blame resting on one; to clear of something that lies upon oppresses one, as an accusation or imputation.
  • v. To discharge from duty or obligation, as a bail.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To unload; disburden.
  • To ease (one's self) at stool.
  • To relieve, as of a charge or of blame resting on one; clear of something that lies upon the character as an imputation: as, to exonerate one from blame, or from an accusation of crime.
  • To relieve of, as an obligation, debt, or duty; discharge of responsibility or liability: as, a bail exonerates himself by producing his principal in court.
  • Synonyms To exculpate, absolve, acquit, justify, vindicate.
  • Exonerated; freed.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. pronounce not guilty of criminal charges
  • Verb Form
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    judge    label    pronounce   
    Hyponym
    vindicate    whitewash    purge   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    exculpate    absolve    acquit