Vindicate
['vɪndɪkeɪt] or ['vɪndɪket]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) clear of accusation, blame, suspicion, or doubt with supporting proof; 'You must vindicate yourself and fight this libel'.
(verb.) maintain, uphold, or defend; 'vindicate the rights of the citizens'.
巴兹尔錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To lay claim to; to assert a right to; to claim.
(v. t.) To maintain or defend with success; to prove to be valid; to assert convincingly; to sustain against assault; as, to vindicate a right, claim, or title.
(v. t.) To support or maintain as true or correct, against denial, censure, or objections; to defend; to justify.
(v. t.) To maintain, as a law or a cause, by overthrowing enemies.
(v. t.) To liberate; to set free; to deliver.
(v. t.) To avenge; to punish; as, a war to vindicate or punish infidelity.
手打:洛雷塔
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. [1]. Justify, defend, uphold, speak for, contend for.[2]. Assert, maintain, support, stand by, make good.
戴夫校對
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Assert, maintain, uphold, clear, support, defend, claim, substantiate, justify,establish
ANT:Waive, abandon, surrender, forego, disprove, disestablish, neutralize, nullify,destroy, subvert, annul, vitiate
杜安整理
解釋/意思:
v.t. to lay claim to: to defend: to maintain by force.—n. Vindicabil′ity.—adj. Vin′dicable that may be vindicated or defended.—n. Vindicā′tion act of vindicating: defence: justification: support.—adj. Vin′dicātive vindicating: tending to vindicate: (Shak.) revengeful vindictive.—ns. Vin′dicātiveness vindictiveness; Vin′dicātor one who vindicates:—fem. Vin′dicātress.—adjs. Vin′dicātory tending to vindicate: inflicting punishment; Vindic′tive revengeful.—adv. Vindic′tively.—n. Vindic′tiveness.
吉尔手打
例句/造句/用法:
- Or, says Sir Leicester somewhat sternly, for Volumnia was going to cut in before he had rounded his sentence, or who vindicate their outraged majesty. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- She never did give me any--not the least in the world, when I talked to her myself, said Fred, eager to vindicate Mary. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- I am here obliged to vindicate the reputation of an excellent lady, who was an innocent sufferer upon my account. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- At the expense of the Chemist I vindicate the Man. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- The author thought that the revelation of the structure of the heavens naturally tended to propagate the principles of virtue and vindicate the laws of Providence. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Olympias then reappeared in Macedonia, a woman proudly vindicated. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Mrs. Bulstrode was vindicated from any resemblance to her husband. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- The bounties upon the exportation of British made sail-cloth, and British made gunpowder, may, perhaps, both be vindicated upon this principle. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Today the game stands vindicated and triumphant. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- They vindicated him against the base aspersion. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- He had displayed the one, and vindicated the other. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Your innocence is to be vindicated; and they show how it can be done. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- I understand the difficulty there is in your vindicating yourself. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Also, that he was charged with the duty of vindicating Stephen Blackpool's memory, and declaring the thief. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- That somebody was assassinated by somebody vindicating a difference of opinion was the likeliest occurrence. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- And yet how was he to set about vindicating himself? 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- How was he to live on without vindicating himself among people who suspected him of baseness? 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
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