exculpate
verb (used with object)
to clear from a charge of guilt or fault; free from blame; vindicate.
have exculpated
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present perfectof exculpate.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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After spending decades in prison, they learned from an article in the Washington Post that prosecutors had withheld evidence that could have exculpated them.
From Slate ● Apr. 1, 2017
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
Bernick: Whatever you have in your mind, I entreat, you to do nothing until I have exculpated myself.
From Pillars of Society by R. Farquharson (Robert Farquharson) Sharp
Bayle might have exculpated himself with facility, by declaring the work was composed by La Roque; but he preferred to be persecuted rather than to ruin his friend; he therefore was silent, and was condemned.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 by Isaac Disraeli
To good men, we think, indeed, that we have exculpated ourselves sufficiently.
From Apology of the Augsburg Confession by Philipp Melanchthon
