0 present participle of exonerate
1 to show or state that someone or something is not guilty of something:
The report exonerated the crew from all responsibility for the collision.
One is tempted to think that not all of those arguments can be right if they end up exonerating both sides to the conflict.
In contrast, excuses are ex post, individualized exonerating factors that indicate that the wrongdoer was not responsible.
Some of them followed a standard format proposed by the union, naturally exonerating the leaders of the numerous charges against them.
Collectively, they provide a convincing case for exonerating those charged with failing to make peace at the end of both world wars by highlighting the near impossibility of their task.
I am by no means exonerating the local authorities completely.
Each year brings new evidence, all of it exonerating the men and none of it implicating them.
The respondents in the case said that what was required of a refugee was a "voluntary exonerating act".
I am not exonerating my own party in this matter before the war, although the economic situation in respect of commodity production was fundamentally different.
