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Thesaurus: exonerate

To unload; to disburden; to discharge.

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  1. v. t. To unload; to disburden; to discharge.
  2. v. t. To relieve, in a moral sense, as of a charge, obligation, or load of blame resting on one; to clear of something that lies upon oppresses one, as an accusation or imputation; as, to exonerate one's self from blame, or from the charge of avarice.
  3. v. t. To discharge from duty or obligation, as a ball.
  4. v. pronounce not guilty of criminal charges
  5. v:100 v pronounce not guilty of criminal charges