Exonerate (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 DNA evidence collected at the crime scene helped to exonerate the wrongly accused man.
- After a thorough investigation, the district attorney's office was compelled to exonerate the suspect due to lack of concrete evidence.
- The forensic analysis of the fingerprints lifted from the scene exonerated the suspect of any wrongdoing.
- Newly discovered testimony from an eyewitness helped to exonerate the defendant of the charges brought against him.
- A decade after the conviction, the discovery of new evidence led the appeals court to exonerate the wrongly imprisoned woman.