Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word EXONERATE

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Definitions of EXONERATE

1. (transitive, archaic) To relieve (someone or something) of a load; to unburden (a load).
2. (obsolete, reflexive) Of a body of water: to discharge or empty (itself).
3. (transitive) To free (someone) from an obligation, responsibility or task.
4. (transitive) To free (someone) from accusation or blame.
5. (archaic) Freed from an obligation; freed from accusation or blame; acquitted, exonerated.

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Examples of Using EXONERATE in a Sentence

• Exonerate of fines and surcharges to the taxpayers who have incurred in them for not covering the taxes within the legal terms for acts or omissions in the administrative order.
• When his own son was condemned of this, he refused to exonerate him, instead submitting to the loss of one of his own eyes instead of exacting the full penalty of the culprit.
• Amateur historian Richard Bales gathered sufficient evidence on Sullivan to convince the Chicago City Council to exonerate O'Leary of any guilt in 1997.
• That same year, he published a book on the Hall Carbine Affair, in which he attempted to exonerate John Pierpont Morgan from guilt with respect to the incident, which had been viewed as an example of wartime profiteering.
• During the denazification process, his statements helped to exonerate acting colleagues, including Göring’s widow, Emmy, and Veit Harlan, director of the film Jud Süß.
• This is taken by most of the press to be a strong condemnation of the BBC's handling of the affair and to exonerate the government; the BBC's Director-General, Greg Dyke, chairman of the Board of Governors, Gavyn Davies, and the journalist at the centre of the controversy, Andrew Gilligan, resign.
• According to some reports, Yazid also dishonored the severed head of Husayn with blows from a cane, although this last episode is sometimes attributed to Ibn Ziyad instead, in line with the Sunni tendency to exonerate the caliph of killing Husayn and blaming Ibn Ziyad.
• Potterley and his wife both remain disturbed by the death of their baby daughter in a house fire many years earlier, and there is the suggestion that he is subconsciously trying to exonerate the Carthaginians of child sacrifice as a way of exonerating himself of the possibility that he accidentally started the fire which killed his daughter.
• Daniel Blatman, writing in 1997, noted Roszkowski to be among a new generation of post-Communist historians who tried to portray Poles as the ideal victim of Nazism as well as communism, and exonerate them of all misdeeds — his monograph on post-War history of Poland portrayed the Kielce pogrom as a handiwork of Communist agents, rather than Poles, despite lack of supportive evidence.
• After Briggs interrogates suspect Robert Danker, who claims he was not involved in either killing and that he has been framed, various tests are run at the FBI laboratory in Washington that exonerate Danker.
• Serena's relationship with Ben slowly erodes when she receives news from Vanessa that he is responsible for hurting Nate's father in prison and when Ben's mother, Cynthia, raises Ben's personal troubles while at the same time seeking to exonerate him.
• But the two rivals are soon forced to work together and they eventually managed to exonerate Deirdre by exposing Lindsay's past felony as a bigamist.
• His style is sufficiently individual to exonerate him from the imputation of being merely an imitator.
• From there, he began a literary campaign to exonerate himself, and succeeded in having a council called to reexamine his case; it took place at the imperial palace of Blachernae in Constantinople, meeting in several sessions from February to August in the year 1285.
• calling it a "reactionary doctrine" and "an attempt on the part of bourgeois ideologists to exonerate capitalism and to prove the inevitability of privation and misery for the working class under any social system".
• Before they were separated, Bukharin instructed Anna to memorise his final testament (knowing that it would be suppressed by Stalin) in which he implored future generations of Communist leaders to exonerate him.
• The film shows the immense pressures brought to bear on members of the community to help in the conviction – the black janitor, Tump Redwine, who is induced to lie on the stand for fear he himself will be convicted if Hale is found innocent; the juror who is the sole holdout to a guilty verdict; and the barber who is afraid to testify to something he knows because it could exonerate Hale.
• As faith in the new cure starts to dwindle, Ehrlich is forced to sue Wolfert for libel and in the process exonerate 606.
• Hinman murder: Contemporary interviews and trial witness testimony insisted that the Tate–LaBianca murders were copycat crimes of the Murder of Gary Hinman intended to exonerate Charles Manson's friend Bobby Beausoleil.
• Despite resistance from police and the prosecution, who claimed they got it right the first time, both a grand jury and a judge investigating the case eventually ruled to exonerate Adams and indict Gossett on manslaughter charges.

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