exculpate, absolve, exonerate, acquit,vindicatemean to free from a charge. exculpate implies a clearing from blame or fault often in a matter of small importance. Flexible booking options on mosthotels. Compare 5,294hotelsin Redmond using 12,800 real guest reviews. Get instant savings now or enjoy the flexibility of rewards for a future trip. Vindicatemeans to justify, prove, or reinforce an idea — or to absolve from guilt. If your family thinks you hogged the last piece of pie on Thanksgiving, you'll bevindicatedwhen your younger brother fesses up. If a person or their decisions, actions, or ideas arevindicated, they are proved to be correct, after people have said that they were wrong. The director said he had beenvindicatedby the experts' report. He called the success avindicationof his party's free-market economic policy. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary.
