Exculpate synonyms and antonyms

ĕk'skəl-pāt', ĭk-skŭl'-

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acquit
In criminal law, to clear a person, to release or set him free, or to discharge him from an accusation of committing a criminal offense after a judicial finding that he is not guilty of the crime or after the court or prosecution determines that the case should not continue after the criminal trial has started. See also autrefois acquit and double jeopardy.
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clear
To free (a person or thing) of or from something
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absolve
The definition of absolve is to be forgiven for your sins or to be set free of all of the legal or moral consequences of your actions.
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forgive
To show forgiveness; be inclined to forgive
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amnesty
To grant a pardon (to a group)
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dismiss
To end the employment or service of; discharge.
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excuse
To free, as from an obligation or duty; exempt:
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exonerate
(Now rare) To relieve (someone or something) of a load; to unburden (a load).
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free
Free means to release or let go.
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pardon
To cancel or not exact penalty for (an offense); forgive
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release
To set free from confinement or bondage:
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vindicate
To vindicate is defined as to clear someone of criticism or blame.
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blame (antonym)
(Usually followed by "for") To assert or consider that someone is the cause of something negative; to place blame, to attribute responsibility (for something negative or for doing something negative).
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condemn (antonym)
The definition of condemn is to state that someone or something is wrong or evil or to sentence to punishment.
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sentence (antonym)
To impose a sentence on (a criminal defendant found guilty, for example).
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purge
To become clean, clear, or pure
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law (related)
(Informal, Dial.) To take legal action (against)
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assoil
To remove; to put off.
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discharge
To shoot:
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convict (antonym)
To return a verdict of guilty in a court:
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disavow (related)
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Exculpate Sentence Examples

  • Both men were endeavouring to exculpate themselves, and therefore both statements are subject to suspicion.

  • He was one of the Scots who met Elizabeth's representatives at York in 1568; here he showed a desire to exculpate Mary and to marry her to the duke of Norfolk, a course of action probably dictated by a desire to avoid all revelations about the Darnley murder.

  • The notes' bearing upon the interview which he obtained with the king show that he had begun to see more clearly the nature and extent of the offences with which he was charged, that he now felt it impossible altogether to exculpate himself, and that his hopes were directed towards obtaining some mitigation of his sentence.

  • It also created a great impression in England, where it was believed that the Bandieras' correspondence with Mazzini (q.v.) had been tampered with, and that information as to the proposed expedition had been forwarded to the Austrian and Neapolitan governments by the British foreign office; recent publications, however, especially the biography of Sir James Graham, tend to exculpate the British government.

  • On the other hand, it is urged that, though Guyon and Du Verdier were in a sense contemporaries, they wrote long after the events, and that the testimony of the former is vitiated, not merely by its extreme vagueness, but by the fact .that it occurs in a plaidoyer, tending to exculpate physicians from the charge of unorthodoxy; that Du Verdier in another place assigns the Pantagrueline Prognostication to this same unknown student of Valence, and had therefore probably confused and hearsay notions on the subject; that the rasher and fiercer tone, as well as the apparent repetitions, are sufficiently accounted for on the supposition that Rabelais never finally revised the book, which indeed dates show that he could not have done, as the fourth was not finally settled till just before his death; and that it is perfectly probable, and indeed almost certain, that it was prepared from his papers by another hand, which is responsible for the anachronous allusions above referred to.

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