to exonerate
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8.2
- verb
- /ɪɡˈzɒnəreɪt/
- Formal
:
exonerar
- Thomas hoped the trial would exonerate both Fletcher and the truth of Spiritualism.
- exonerating evidence
- convicted or exonerated
- attempt to exonerate
The truth exonerates and it convicts.
- The truth exonerates and it convicts.
- Now, that doesn't exonerate criminal and hurtful behaviour.
- And there are so many emails that would exonerate me.
- He didn't put me or his son as part of the dead bed confession exonerating us.
- So you got Papa John's doesn't want the first transcript out there because it exonerates me.
- Harmar is later exonerated by a court martial, but his reputation never recovers.
- So two of the kids in the TV program at the high school make a documentary to hopefully exonerate him of his crimes.
- And at the hearings, Mueller confirmed that the president of the United States was not totally exonerated.
- Trump believes the transcript exonerates him and thinks we all would too, if we just heard the transcript right.
- So he says to them in his letter that the test results, you know, are either going to confirm my guilt or else it's going to exonerate me.
- It slightly exonerates Watson's misogyny, but only slightly.
- Of course rape is excused or exonerated and unnoticed.
- Yeah, it was, I'm I'm going to sell you this thing and it's going to exonerate you from these unpleasant things.
- He, he works to get them exonerated and he fights for just the, the, the writing of a, a racially biased judicial system, right.
- And again, all these people are these people who are exonerating that they've never made a mistake and that they're this perfect person and that they're family people.
Examples
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And the public also made it clear they weren't about to exonerate any health worker.
Fiction book (1992) -
I tested the evidence in his case, and that evidence failed to exonerate him.
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In early March, that committee exonerated him of six of the eight charges.
Fiction book (1994) -
Justice will prevail, and my client will be exonerated.
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Dreyfus was eventually exonerated of all charges and made the night of the Legion of Honour.
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Nifong, now 57, faces a multimillion-dollar civil lawsuit from the exonerated lacrosse players.
Academic text (2008) -
Aaron Davis, the former gang leader indicted for the murder of sibling Shanna Garfield has been exonerated after years of incarceration.
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The new evidence presented in court was enough to exonerate the defendant from all charges.
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After a thorough investigation, the committee decided to exonerate her of any wrongdoing.
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The findings of the report will likely exonerate him from the accusations made last year.
Synonyms
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7.2
Make someone officially free from blame, guilt, or responsibility
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7.4
To say in court that someone is not guilty
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7.2
Officially say that someone is not guilty of a crime
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9.9
To say officially that someone is not guilty of a crime
To say someone is not guilty of a crime
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
exonerate = oner (opaque) = ex + oner + ate
The connection to 'oner' is not immediately clear due to the specialized legal context of 'exonerate'.
Etymology
Exonerate comes from the Latin parts ex- meaning 'out' and onus meaning 'burden', so it literally means 'take the burden away'. So to exonerate someone is to lift the 'burden' of blame from them and officially say they are not guilty.