Exonerate

[ɪg'zɒnəreɪt;eg-] or [ɪɡ'zɑnəret]

Definition

(v. t.) To unload; to disburden; to discharge.

(v. t.) 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; as, to exonerate one's self from blame, or from the charge of avarice.

(v. t.) To discharge from duty or obligation, as a ball.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. Exculpate, absolve, acquit, clear, release, discharge, justify, vindicate, let off.

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Synonyms and Antonyms

[See EXCULPATE]

Edited by Alexander

Definition

v.t. to free from the burden of blame or obligation: to acquit.—n. Exonerā′tion act of exonerating or freeing from a charge or blame.—adj. Exon′erative freeing from a burden or obligation.

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