Exonerate

Definition: Exonerate

Exonerate

Verb

1. Pronounce not guilty of criminal charges; "The suspect was cleared of the murder charges".

Date "exonerate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references)

Note: Exonerate \Ex*on"er*ate\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Exonerated; present participle verb or noun Exonerating.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Exonerate

Synonyms: acquit (v), assoil (v), clear (v), discharge (v), exculpate (v). (additional references)

Antonym: convict (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Acquittal	Verb: acquit, exculpate, exonerate, clear; absolve, whitewash, assoil; discharge, release; liberate.
Exemption	Exempt, release, acquit, discharge, quitclaim, remise, remit; free, set at liberty, let off, pass over, spare, excuse, dispense with, give dispensation, license; stretch a point; absolve; (forgive); exonerate; (exculpate); save the necessity.
Facility	Render easy; Adjective: facilitate, smooth, ease; popularize; lighten, lighten the labor; free, clear; disencumber, disembarrass, disentangle, disengage; deobstruct, unclog, extricate, unravel; untie the knot, cut the knot; disburden, unload, exonerate, emancipate, free from, deoppilate; humor; (aid); lubricate; relieve.
Permission	Let off; absolve; (acquit); release, exonerate, dispense with.
Vindication	Verb: justify, warrant; be an excuse; n.for; lend a color, furnish a handle; vindicate; exculpate, disculpate; acquit; clear, set right, exonerate, whitewash; clear the skirts of.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Exonerate

English words defined with "exonerate": alibi ♦ Exonerating ♦ mitigating circumstance ♦ whitewash. (references)

Subject	Topic	Quote
Human Rights	Mexico	The CEDHJ report also seemed to exonerate Attorney General Ledesma Martinez, who had resigned shortly after the case, of wrongdoing. (references)
Trade	Nicaragua	The reform: a) banned almost all non-trade barriers on imports, b) eliminated the discretionality of government officials to exonerate tariffs, c) repealed the restrictive Law on Agents, Representatives or Distributors of Foreign Firms (effective July 1, 1998), d) established a "rebate" of 1.5 percent of FOB value for all exports, e) eliminated payments for permits and licenses related to export activities, f) eliminated IGV on several activities, g) reduced municipal taxes from two to 1.5 percent in 1998 and to 1 percent in 2000, h) eliminated income tax on interest and capital gains stemming from transactions on the local stock exchange, and i) set a schedule of progressive import tax reductions through the year 2002. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
George Washington	1789-1797	Allow me, moreover, to hope that it will be a favorite policy with you, not merely to secure a payment of the interest of the debt funded, but as far and as fast as the growing resources of the country will permit to exonerate it of the principal itself.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Exonerate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 88.89% of the time. "Exonerate" is used about 27 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	88.89%	24	71,196
Adjective (general or positive)	7.41%	2	245,945
Lexical Verb (base form)	3.7%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	27	N/A

Expressions using "exonerate": exonerate from ♦ exonerate oneself. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "exonerate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		shkarkues (discharge, discharger, exonerative), shkarkoj (debark, disburden, discharge, disembark, dismiss, divest, free, land, offload, relegate, set free, unburden, unlade, unload), shfajësues (apologetic, apologetical, exculpatory), shfajësoj (absolve, acquit, defend, exculpate, justify, purge, vindicate, whitewash). (various references)

Arabic		‏حل (acquit, become, clear up, crack, detach, disband, disengage, disentangle, disintegrate, dismissal, dispensation, dissolve, fix, free, hash, loose, ravel out, releasing, resolution, resolve, settle, settlement, settling, solution, solve, solvent, unbend, unclasp, uncoil, undo, undoing, unfasten, unfastening, unhook, untangle, untie, untwine, untying, unwind), ‏أعتق (emancipate, enfranchise, liberate, manumit, redeem, release), ‏أبرئ (acquit, clear). (various references)

Bulgarian		реабилитирам (exculpate, rehabilitate, vindicate, whitewash), оправдавам (acquit, authorise, authorize, exculpate, excuse, fulfill, justify, legitimate, purge, sanctify, vindicate, warrant). (various references)

Chinese		免除 (Exonerated, Exonerating). (various references)

Czech		zprostit viny (absolve, acquit), ospravedlnit (justify, vindicate, warrant). (various references)

Dutch		ontlasten (to become light). (various references)

Farsi		مبراکردن (Absolve), تبرءه کردن (Acquit, Cleanse, Clear, Excuse, Purge), روسفیدکردن (Acquit). (various references)

Finnish		vapauttaa syytetty syytteestä (to acquit, to exonerate the accused from prosecution), vapauttaa joku osallisuutta koskevista epäilyistä (to exonerate someone). (various references)

French		soularger, innocenter (exculpate), disculper (exculpate), décharger, blanchir, acquitter. (various references)

German		entlasten (disburden, discharge, disencumber, ease, release, relieve, relieve from load, relieve the strain on, to become light, unburden, unload). (various references)

Greek		απαλλάσσω (absolve, acquit, deliver, excuse, exempt, extricate, relieve, rid). (various references)

Hebrew		מזוכ�", לט�"ר (cleanse, clear, make clean, purge, purify, rid), ל� קות (acquit, clean, cleanse, exculpate). (various references)

Hungarian		megszabadít (disburden, disentangle, liberate, quit, rescue, rid, set free, set loose, to disencumber, to disentangle, to exonerate, to extricate, to liberate, to quit, to rescue, to rid, to unburden, to unloose, to weed, to weed out, unfetter), felment (absolve, exempt from, quit, release, to absolve, to acquit, to clear, to exculpate, to excuse, to exempt, to exonerate, to justify, to liberate, to release, to succour). (various references)

Italian		esonerare (dismiss, exempt, free, unseat), scagionare, discolpare (clear, exculpate, excuse). (various references)

Manx		seyrey (absolution, absolve, acquit, acquittal, affranchise, affranchisement, clear, clear from guilt, deliver, discharge, disembarrass, disencumber; exploit; clearing, disengage, dismiss, dismissal, disoblige, dispensation; exploitation, ease, emancipate, emancipation, enfranchise, exempt, exemption, exoneration, free, justification, justify, liberate, liberation, purge, release, relieve, riddance, vindication, vindication act of). (various references)

Pig Latin		exonerateay

Portuguese		exonerar (clear, demit, deprive, discharge, disendow, dismiss, loose, remove, sack), exogamia (exogamy). (various references)

Romanian		elibera (clear, clear out, deliver, discharge, disengage, emancipate, enfranchise, free, give, issue, liberate, make out, manumit, privilege, ransom, release, remand, remit, rescue, rid, unbind, unchain, unfetter, unhand, unshackle, vacate), reabilita (discharge, rehabilitate, remit, retrieve, vindicate, whitewash), disculpa (exculpate), dezvinovãţi (exculpate), absolvi (absolve, acquit, excuse, exempt, forgive, graduate, indulge, pass out, release). (various references)

Russian		реабилитировать (exculpate, rehabbed, rehabbing, rehabilitate, rehabs), реабилитированный, оправдать, оправданный. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		osloboditi optužbe, oslobođen optužbe. (various references)

Spanish		exonerar. (various references)

Swedish		fritaga (acquit, exculpate, exempt, release, vindicate), frita (acquite, exculpate, exempt, release, vindicate), frikänna (absolve, acquit, find not guilty), befria (affranchise, deliver, discharge, disencumber, disengage, disentangle, dispense, emancipate, enfranchise, exempt, extricate, free, liberate, release, rid, set free, spring, unbind), avbörda (unburden). (various references)

Thai		ทำให้พ้นจากความผิ�". (various references)

Turkish		temize çıkarmak (absolve, acquit, clear, exculpate, purge, vindicate, whitewash), suçsuz çıkarmak (acquit, exculpate), muaf tutmak (acquit, discharge, excuse, exempt, free, immunize, prune, release, rescue), aklamak (absolve, acquit, blanch, brighten, clear, exculpate, justify, launder, purge, whiten, whitewash). (various references)

Ukranian		реабілітувати (exculpate, rehabilitate, vindicate, whitewash), реабілітований, виправданий (acquitted, justified, legitimate), звільняти (absolve, acquit, affranchise, avoid, bag, cashier, clear, defecate, disband, disencumber, disengage, dismiss, ease, eject, emancipate, enfranchise, exempt, free, let out, loose, manumit, purify, release, remit, rescue, rid, set free, supersede, unfetter, unshackle, untie, vacate), полегшувати (alleviate, appease, ease, facilitate, lighten, mitigate, relieve, sugar coat, unload). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "exonerate": exonerated, exonerates. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Exonerate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: exhonerate, exonarate, exoner, exonorate. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "exonerate" (pronounced igzÄ"nerā't)
4	-n er ā' t	generate, incinerate, regenerate, venerate.
3	-er ā' t	accelerate, adulterate, agglomerate, ameliorate, collaborate, commemorate, commiserate, cooperate, corroborate, decelerate, decorate, deteriorate, enumerate, evaporate, eviscerate, exaggerate, exasperate, exhilarate, federate, inaugurate, incarcerate, incorporate, invigorate, lacerate, liberate, obliterate, operate, perforate, proliferate, recuperate, redecorate, refrigerate, reincorporate, reinvigorate, reiterate, reverberate, saturate, separate, tolerate.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-n-o-r-t-x"
	-2 letters: externe.
	-3 letters: atoner, entera, entree, eterne, extern, neater, ornate, retene, teener.
	-4 letters: antre, arete, atone, axone, eaten, eater, enate, enter, exert, extra, noter, oaten, oater, orate, oxter, ranee, rente, retax, taxer, taxon, tenor, terne, toner, treen, trona, trone.
	-5 letters: aeon, aero, ante, axon, earn, erne, etna, exon, near, neat, next, nota, note, oxen, rant.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-e-n-o-r-t-x"
	+1 letter: exonerated, exonerates.
	+2 letters: exonerative.
	+3 letters: exenteration.
	+4 letters: exenterations, overanxieties, overexuberant.
	+5 letters: counterexample, extemporaneity, extemporaneous, extraneousness.
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