To acquit, clear, or exonerate (of a charge). Obsolete. (In later times only Scottish; cf. clenge, n.)

transitive. To free (a person) from blame or accusation; to acquit (one) of a penalty or charge; to clear, exculpate.

transitive. To free (a person) from accusation; to clear.

transitive. To cleanse, purify (a person, the body, etc.); to free from or rid of impurity. Also figurative, to clear of guilt (= purge, v.1 1). Obs…

transitive. To excuse or exculpate. Also reflexive: to make an excuse.

transitive. To free from blame, acquit, exculpate.

transitive. To prove (a person) innocent of a suspicion or accusation; to declare not guilty of a crime. Usually with of or from. Also reflexive and…

transitive. To make morally or spiritually pure; to free from sin, guilt, disgrace, etc. Also occasionally intransitive: to become pure.

transitive. To cover with or as with plaster; to plaster over; to plaster together. Cf. plaster, v. 2. Now rare.

transitive. To clear (a person) of a charge or imputation. Obsolete.

To make clear from the imputation of guilt, to free from accusation, charge, or blame; to prove innocent; to acquit. (Often, to clear oneself.)

To grant (a person) absolution from sin. Also more generally: to acquit or set free from blame… transitive. With from. Also intransitive.

transitive. To clear (a person or a person's character) of an accusation or suspicion of guilt; (Law) to establish the innocence of (a person), or…

transitive. To clear from blame or disgrace; to show or declare to be innocent of a charge; to absolve, acquit. Frequently with from, of, or (Scottish…

Scots Law. ‘Legally to exculpate, to produce proof of innocence’ (Jamieson); to find not guilty.

transitive. = disculpate, v.

To acquit of guilt.

To free from blame; to exculpate; also, to relieve from the blame or burden of; to relieve or set free from (blame, reproach).

transitive. To free from blame; to declare free from guilt; to clear from an accusation or blame.

To clear, free from blame or aspersion.

transitive. To clear from an imputation; to shift an imputation from (a person) upon (another); in quot. reflexive.

Phrases (with various nouns as object). to wipe the mouth of: to exonerate, prove or assert the innocence of: cf. Proverbs xxx. 20.

transitive. To absolve from blame; to exonerate, exculpate. Frequently reflexive.

transitive. To conceal the faults or errors of; to free, or attempt to free, from blame; to provide with a semblance of honesty, respectability…

transitive. To restore or re-establish the reputation or merit of; to vindicate, esp. through a literary or historical reappraisal. Also: to clear…