exonerate

English

Etymology

From the participle stem of Latin exonerāre.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ɪkˈsɒnəɹeɪt/

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Verb

exonerate (third-person singular simple present exonerates, present participle exonerating, simple past and past participle exonerated)

1. (transitive, now rare) To relieve (someone or something) of a load; to unburden (a load).
2. (obsolete, reflexive) Of a body of water, to discharge (oneself), empty oneself.
   • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.ii.3:

     I would examine the Caspian Sea, and see where and how it exonerates itself, after it hath taken in Volga, Iaxartes, Oxus, and those great rivers; at the mouth of Obi, or where?

3. (transitive) To free from an obligation, responsibility or task.
4. (transitive) To free from accusation or blame.

Translations

To free from accusation or blame

Bulgarian: оправдавам (bg) Dutch: vrijspreken (nl)

Finnish: vapauttaa syytteestä

To free from an obligation, responsibility or task

Bulgarian: освобождавам от задължение (bg) Dutch: ontheffen (nl)

Finnish: vapauttaa vastuusta

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Spanish: exculpar

Synonyms

• (to free from accusation) acquit

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Latin

Verb

exonerāte

1. first-person plural present active imperative of exonerō