vindicate
Meaning of vindicate
verb
- clear (someone) of blame or suspicion.
hospital staff were vindicated by the inquest verdict
mid 16th century (in the sense ‘deliver, rescue’): from Latin vindicat- ‘claimed, avenged’, from the verb vindicare, from vindex, vindic- ‘claimant, avenger’.
Information about vindicate
- It is a verb.
- The plural form of vindicate is: vindicates.
- Languages in which vindicate is used:
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Hyphenation of vindicate
vin-di-cate
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- vindicate is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
vindicate synonyms
Meaning justify:
Meaning free (someone) from a criminal charge by a verdict of not guilty:
Meaning officially show or declare (someone) to be innocent:
Meaning declare (someone) free from guilt, obligation, or punishment:
Meaning (of an official body) absolve (someone) from blame for a fault or wrongdoing:
Meaning show or declare that (someone) is not guilty of wrongdoing:
Meaning tell (someone) officially that they can or must leave a place or situation:
Meaning set (someone) free from imprisonment, slavery, or oppression:
Meaning release from confinement or slavery:
Meaning bring and hand over (a letter, parcel, or goods) to the proper recipient or address:
Meaning compensate for the faults or bad aspects of:
vindicate antonyms
Meaning declare (someone) to be guilty of a criminal offence by the verdict of a jury or the decision of a judge in a court of law:
Meaning feel or declare that (someone or something) is responsible for a fault or wrong:
Meaning make (someone) appear guilty of a crime or wrongdoing:
Words that rhyme with vindicate
Cate, cate, abacate, acate, aguacate, butylsebacate, chacate, demiplacate, hydroxysebacate, jacate, opacate, pacate, placate, prevacate, revacate, sacate, sebacate, tetradecylsebacate, vacate, zacate, baccate, bisaccate, braccate, buccate, desiccate, electrodesiccate, exsiccate, insuccate, multisaccate, placcate, resiccate, saccate, siccate, toccate, Hecate, Tecate, apprecate, athecate, decate, defaecate, defecate, deprecate, desecate, endothecate, enecate, epithecate, excecate, exothecate, hecate, hypothecate
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