exculpate
verb (used with object)
to clear from a charge of guilt or fault; free from blame; vindicate.
had exculpated
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past perfectof exculpate.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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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
