Word Meanings - EXONERATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To unload; to disburden; to discharge. All exonerate themselves into one common duct. Ray. 2. To relieve, in a moral sense, as of a charge, obligation, or load of blame resting on one; to clear of something that lies upon oppresses one, as an

Additional info about word: EXONERATE

1. To unload; to disburden; to discharge. All exonerate themselves into one common duct. Ray. 2. To relieve, in a moral sense, as of a charge, obligation, or load of blame resting on one; to clear of something that lies upon oppresses one, as an accusation or imputation; as, to exonerate one's self from blame, or from the charge of avarice. Burke. 3. To discharge from duty or obligation, as a ball. Syn. - To absolve; acquit; exculpate. See Absolve.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EXONERATE)

• Absolve
• Acquit
• release
• exonerate
• liberate
• exempt
• discharge
• exculpate
• pardon
• forgive
• free
• clear
• Discharge
• absolve
• dismiss
• Clean Clarify
• disencumber
• disentangle
• disembarrass
• vindicate
• set free
• justify
• retrieve
• acquit
• whitewash
• extricate
• eliminate
• Exculpate
• Defend
• Excuse
• overlook
• condone
• i emit
• indulge
• defend
• mitigate
• extenuate

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of EXONERATE)

• Bind
• constrain
• confine
• shackle
• fetter
• yoke

Related words: (words related to EXONERATE)

• DISMISSIVE
  Giving dismission.
• EXCUSEMENT
  Excuse. Gower.
• CLEANSABLE
  Capable of being cleansed. Sherwood.
• PARDON
  A release, by a sovereign, or officer having jurisdiction, from the penalties of an offense, being distinguished from amenesty, which is a general obliteration and canceling of a particular line of past offenses. Syn. -- Forgiveness; remission.
• CLEAN-CUT
  See CLEAR-CUT
• CLEARLY
  In a clear manner.
• ELIMINATE
  To cause to disappear from an equation; as, to eliminate an unknown quantity. 3. To set aside as unimportant in a process of inductive inquiry; to leave out of consideration. Eliminate errors that have been gathering and accumulating. Lowth. 4.
• DISMISSAL
  Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.
• CLEANNESS
  1. The state or quality of being clean. 2. Purity of life or language; freedom from licentious courses. Chaucer.
• CLEARER
  A tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, clears. Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding. Addison.
• DISENCUMBER
  To free from encumbrance, or from anything which clogs, impedes, or obstructs; to disburden. Owen. I have disencumbered myself from rhyme. Dryden.
• CLEANING
  1. The act of making clean. 2. The afterbirth of cows, ewes, etc. Gardner.
• CLEANLINESS
  State of being cleanly; neatness of person or dress. Cleanliness from head to heel. Swift.
• INDULGEMENT
  Indulgence. Wood.
• DISMISS
  1. To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away. He dismissed the assembly. Acts xix. 41. Dismiss their cares when they dismiss their flock. Cowper. Though he soon dismissed himself from state affairs. Dryden.
• FORGIVER
  One who forgives. Johnson.
• CONSTRAINTIVE
  Constraining; compulsory. "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew.
• EXCUSER
  1. One who offers excuses or pleads in extenuation of the fault of another. Swift. 2. One who excuses or forgives another. Shelton.
• CLEANLY
  1. Habitually clean; pure; innocent. "Cleanly joys." Glanvill. Some plain but cleanly country maid. Dryden. Displays her cleanly platter on the board. Goldsmith. 2. Cleansing; fitted to remove moisture; dirt, etc. "With cleanly powder dry their
• EXTENUATE
  thin, loosen, weaken; ex out + tenuare to make thin, tenuis thin. See 1. To make thin or slender; to draw out so as to lessen the thickness. His body behind the head becomes broad, from whence it is again extenuated all the way to the tail. Grew.
• ACQUIT
  Acquitted; set free; rid of. Shak.
• CONFINER
  One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
• RELEASE
  To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
• UNCLEAN
  1. Not clean; foul; dirty; filthy. 2. Ceremonially impure; needing ritual cleansing. He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days. Num. xix. 11. 3. Morally impure. "Adultery of the heart, consisting of inordinate
• POLYNUCLEAR
  Containing many nuclei.
• EXCUSE
  1. To free from accusation, or the imputation of fault or blame; to clear from guilt; to release from a charge; to justify by extenuating a fault; to exculpate; to absolve; to acquit. A man's persuasion that a thing is duty, will not excuse him