exculpate

🇬🇧 UK/'ekskʌlpeit/🇺🇸 US
TOEFLGREC2

Definitions

v.

To clear someone of blame or guilt; to exonerate.

使无罪,开脱罪责

🧩 Root Breakdown

Root-derived
exout of, former
+
culproot
+
ateto make, having
=exculpate

Example Sentences

  • 1.

    New evidence helped exculpate the defendant who had spent years in prison wrongly convicted.

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