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exculpate

/ek-skuhl-peyt, ik-skuhl-peyt/US // ˈɛk skʌlˌpeɪt, ɪkˈskʌl peɪt //UK // (ˈɛkskʌlˌpeɪt, ɪkˈskʌlpeɪt) //

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    ex·cul·pat·ed, ex·cul·pat·ing.

    • : to clear from a charge of guilt or fault; free from blame; vindicate.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbforgive

Examples

  • In other words, such is the desire which every one has to exculpate himself by blackening his neighbour.

  • But she turned to me, and tried to exculpate her past violence by dilating upon her wrongs, and they certainly were many.

  • Four men were nearer to Mr. Davis than Byrnes was, and all of them exculpate Mr. Davis.

  • In the Beowulf it was even desirable, as explained above, to go further, and completely to exculpate the Danish watchers.

  • I am very sorry this has occurred, but you at least will exculpate me from the charge of coquetry.