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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She is pointing to their flaws because she wants to be exculpated for having chosen to disbelieve all of them.
From Slate ● Feb. 5, 2021
No evidence emerged linking the man to the crime at the school in Myanmar’s capital, Naypyitaw, and some testimony exculpated him.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 18, 2019
However the public chose to remember her, the German government exculpated Mata Hari in 1930.
From Time ● Oct. 13, 2017
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
Put before any jury of the Five Towns as evidence of character, they would almost have exculpated a murderer.
From Anna of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett
