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exonerated

/ɪɡˈzɑnɚˌeɪtɪd/

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What does exonerated mean?

adjective

  1. Freed from any question of guilt, acquitted.

verb

  1. simple past and past participle of exonerate

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IPA pronunciation

/ɪɡˈzɑnɚˌeɪtɪd/

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In both of these trials the Commissioner of the Freedmen’s Bureau was officially exonerated from any wilful misdoing, and his work commended.
W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du BoisThe Souls of Black FolkProject Gutenberg ebook #408
“You told him all the circumstances—which so completely exonerated you from any blame?”
Emmuska Orczy, Baroness OrczyThe Scarlet PimpernelProject Gutenberg ebook #60
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In each of these trials, and in other attacks, the commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau was exonerated from any willful misdoing, and his work heartily commended.
VariousThe Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial IssueProject Gutenberg ebook #206
My state of mind regarding the pilfering from which I had been so unexpectedly exonerated did not impel me to frank disclosure; but I hope it had some dregs of good at the bottom of it.
Charles DickensGreat ExpectationsProject Gutenberg ebook #1400