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EXONERATED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does exonerated mean?
• EXONERATED (adjective)
The adjective EXONERATED has 1 sense:
1. freed from any question of guilt
Familiarity information: EXONERATED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Freed from any question of guilt
Synonyms:
absolved; clear; cleared; exculpated; exonerated; vindicated
Context example:
his official honor is vindicated
Similar:
clean-handed; guiltless; innocent (free from evil or guilt)
Context examples
Nor, to this day can I permit my manhood to look back upon those events and feel entirely exonerated.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
From school duties she was exonerated: Mrs. Fairfax had pressed me into her service, and I was all day in the storeroom, helping (or hindering) her and the cook; learning to make custards and cheese-cakes and French pastry, to truss game and garnish desert-dishes.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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