Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To clear of accusation, blame, suspicion, or doubt with supporting arguments or proof.
- transitive verb To defend, maintain, or insist on the recognition of (one's rights, for example).
- transitive verb To demonstrate or prove the value or validity of; justify.
- transitive verb Obsolete To exact revenge for; avenge.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Vindicated.
- To assert a right to; lay claim to; claim.
- To defend or support against an enemy; maintain the cause or rights of; deliver from wrong, oppression, or the like; clear from censure, or the like: as, to
vindicate an official. - To support or maintain as true or correct, against denial, censure, or objections; defend; justify.
- To avenge; punish; retaliate.
- Synonyms and Assert, Defend, Maintain, etc. See
assert .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To lay claim to; to assert a right to; to claim.
- transitive verb To maintain or defend with success; to prove to be valid; to assert convincingly; to sustain against assault.
- transitive verb To support or maintain as true or correct, against denial, censure, or objections; to defend; to justify.
- transitive verb To maintain, as a law or a cause, by overthrowing enemies.
- transitive verb obsolete To liberate; to set free; to deliver.
- transitive verb obsolete To avenge; to punish.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
clear from an accusation, suspicion or criticism. - verb To
justify by providingevidence . - verb To
maintain ordefend a cause against opposition. - verb To provide justification for.
- verb To lay claim to; to assert a right to; to
claim . - verb obsolete To liberate; to set free; to deliver.
- verb obsolete To
avenge ; topunish
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb clear of accusation, blame, suspicion, or doubt with supporting proof
- verb maintain, uphold, or defend
- verb show to be right by providing justification or proof
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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While he said he doesn't like to "use the word vindicate," Feldstein, who turns 72 next week, said he recently reviewed his euro-skeptic articles and "thought they were pretty much on target, even though they were written 20 years ago."
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Rome was still the lawful mistress of the world: the pope and the emperor, the bishop and general, had abdicated their station by an inglorious retreat to the Rhone and the Danube; but if she could resume her virtue, the republic might again vindicate her liberty and dominion.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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Later the same day, the-then White House counsel pressed the Justice Department's second highest ranking official to issue a statement that would "vindicate" Rep. Rick Renzi of Arizona.
Murray Waas: Former U.S. Attorney condemns Bush White House Interference with Corruption Probe 2009
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How does float within the MOE "vindicate" the McCain campaign that last's poll was an outlier?
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Wednesday Lee Cheuk-yan, a prodemocracy legislator, introduced a nonbinding motion to remember the crackdown and "vindicate" the student movement.
Hong Kong Freedom Fight Helen Cheng 2009
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Its only purpose can be to do one of three things: self - "vindicate" bad loser revenge, sell products, such as advertising on Fox News, books, speaking tours etc. and/or troll for the unhinged on a "fishing expedition" for tomorrow's assassins.
Frank Schaeffer: Dr. Tiller, Murder, Domestic Terrorism and the Republican Right 2009
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KURTZ: But that goes to the broader point, which is one of the reasons this story has resonated, there is a widespread belief among critics, the BBC was sort of against the war, its reporting has been biased, and that they seized on this weapons of mass destruction story to kind of vindicate their point of view.
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A default judgment would in no way "vindicate" Jones if the President's stated reason for refusing further to defend the suit was the (by now all-too-obvious) fact that defending would demean his office and unduly distract him from doing the people's work.
Clinton & the Jones Case Edmundson, William A. 1998
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As Professor Edmundson further points out, even though a default judgment would not "vindicate" Ms. Jones, if accompanied by a statement that the President chose not to demean his office by defending such a civil suit, there would be a question of public reaction.
Clinton & the Jones Case Edmundson, William A. 1998
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In a single instance, he admits the estimate of Bernal Diaz, who puts the loss sustained by the Indians in a battle at eight hundred; while Las Casas, whose corrections of other writers Mr. Wilson professes to "vindicate," says the loss of the Indians on this occasion amounted to thirty thousand.
Kristianto2010 commented on the word vindicate
I cry out to God Most High, to God, who vindicates me. He sends from heaven and saves me, rebuking those who hotly pursue me. God sends forth his love and his faithfulness. Psalm 57:2~3.
June 13, 2011
mohitanand commented on the word vindicate
to clear of accusation, blame, suspicion, or doubt with supporting arguments or proof
Even seven Tour de France wins cannot vindicate Lance Armstrong in the eyes of the public--that the athlete used performance enhancing drugs invalidates all those win
October 11, 2016