单词 | exculpate |
释义 | exculpate (once / 7912 pages) v To exculpate means to find someone not guilty of criminal charges. If you've been wrongly accused of robbery, you'd better hope a judge will exculpate you, unless you want to go to jail because you've heard prison food is amazing. Exculpate comes from two Latin words: ex-, meaning "from," and culpa, meaning "blame." Exculpate is similar in meaning to exonerate. When you exonerate someone, you clear a person of an accusation and any suspicion that goes along with it. Exculpate usually refers more directly to clearing the charges against someone. So if that judge exculpates you from the robbery charge, everyone in town might still think you did it. Get him to exculpate and exonerate you. WORD FAMILYexculpate: exculpated, exculpates, exculpating, exculpation, exculpatory+/exculpation: exculpations USAGE EXAMPLESHe was exculpated by DNA evidence and freed in 2009 after 31 years in prison for a rape he did not commit. Washington Times(Sep 28, 2016) Why bother to exculpate a generation of whites, for example, when there’s so much to be done now, so much responsibility left to be taken? The Guardian(Mar 29, 2016) Karim Benzema's brief has already cried foul, saying the leak was "selective" and left out parts that might exculpate his client. BBC(Nov 11, 2015) v pronounce not guilty of criminal charges Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper acquit, assoil, clear, discharge, exonerate convict find or declare guilty vindicate clear of accusation, blame, suspicion, or doubt with supporting proof whitewashexonerate by means of a perfunctory investigation or through biased presentation of data purgeclear of a charge judge, label, pronounce pronounce judgment on |
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