Exculpate (Verb)
Meaning
Pronounce not guilty of criminal charges; "The suspect was cleared of the murder charges".
Classification
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing.
Examples
- The new evidence revealed during the trial was enough to exculpate the defendant of the alleged crime.
- Her alibi checked out by multiple witnesses, so the police agreed to exculpate her from the list of potential suspects.
- The forensic analysis of the crime scene helped to exculpate the wrongly accused man after years in prison.
- Innocence wasn't assumed; instead, it was proven through evidence, which served to exculpate her in the eyes of the jury.
- The security footage clearly showed someone else at the scene, thus managing to exculpate the prime suspect of the burglary charges.