exonerate

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  1. transitive verb To free from blame.
  2. transitive verb To free from a responsibility, obligation, or task.

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  • The conduct of Carrier has been examined according to the new forms, and he is now on his trial—though not till the delays of the Convention had given rise to a general suspicion that they intended either to exonerate or afford him an opportunity of escaping; and the people were at last so highly exasperated, that six thousand troops were added to the military force of Paris, and an insurrection was seriously apprehended. —  A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795
  • Amazingly, the Cato paper makes absolutely no mention of this academic program in its effort to exonerate Friedman personally. —  Darwiniana
  • The report's authors exonerate the IRA over non-terrorist crimes, although they accept that some of its individual members or ex-members could be engaged in "ordinary" criminal activity. —  Pat Dollard | Young Americans
  • "This study by itself does not exonerate the role of all vaccines" —  Autism Hub
  • "This study by itself does not exonerate all vaccines," he said. —  MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians
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exonerate:   exonerating ·  exonerated
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English exoneraten, from Latin exonerāre, exonerāt-, to free from a burden : ex-, ex- + onus, oner-, burden.

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  1. from Latin exoneratus, past participle of exonerare, disburden, discharge, from ex- privative + onerare, load, burden, from onus (oner-), a load: see onus, onerous.
  2. from Latin exoneratus, past participle: see the verb.
 

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/ɛgˈzɑnəreɪt/
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