exculpate
verb (used with object)
to clear from a charge of guilt or fault; free from blame; vindicate.
exculpated
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past participleof exculpate.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof exculpate.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
exculpateverb (used with object)to clear from a charge of guilt or fault; free from blame; vindicate.
Example Sentences
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Hegseth quickly agreed with Hannity that he had been fully exculpated by the California police.
From Slate ● Dec. 12, 2024
However the public chose to remember her, the German government exculpated Mata Hari in 1930.
From Time ● Oct. 13, 2017
He was exculpated by DNA evidence and freed in 2009 after 31 years in prison for a rape he did not commit.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 28, 2016
The last trial was, in many ways, the most astonishing, because it came four years after new DNA evidence had exculpated Rivera.
From The New Yorker ● May 22, 2015
The notorious Bishop of Clogher, for instance, exculpated himself in a criminal information by an affidavit, and the result was, the man who published the truth of that wretch groaned in a jail!!!
From Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume I (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Lady Anne Hamilton
