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exonerate
verb
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To clear someone of blame or responsibility.
The recovered letter helped exonerate the wrongly accused messenger.
Dictionary practice example.
Soon afterward, a member wanted to denounce a newcomer for returning a borrowed tool with a visible crack in its handle. Before the group could impute the damage to him, the coordinator checked the checkout photographs and the earlier maintenance note. Those records could exonerate the newcomer because they showed the same crack before he borrowed the tool.
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