exculpate
/EK-skul-payt/verbto show or declare that someone is not guilty of wrongdoing
“New footage exculpated the driver entirely.”
- Synonyms
- exonerate, acquit, vindicate
- Antonyms
- implicate, incriminate
- Root
- culp- (blame)
- Memory hook
- ex (out) + culp (blame): lift the blame out.
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