(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.
(v. t.) To discharge from duty or obligation, as a ball.
Example Sentences:
(1) They were completely exonerated and released in 2004.
(2) Google agreed to change the ways it presents some search results and runs search advertising, but was exonerated of the results bias claims.
(3) In the past King has hinted at select committee sessions that Labour allowed public spending to rise too fast but his latest remarks are one of his clearest exonerations of Labour for the financial crash.
(4) The residents were exonerated of all charges by a review panel with lay and physician representation after testimony of expert witnesses.
(5) A negative FNA biopsy result does not exonerate the clinically suspicious lesion.
(6) In public they have welcomed an inquiry because they believe they will be exonerated of any accusations of profiteering or non-competitive actions.
(7) The underlying meaning of the first phase of this trial is, Clarke’s opening statement made clear, not to exonerate Tsarnaev completely of the 30 charges against him, but to win the jury’s trust for the second, death-penalty phase, when they will hear arguments as to whether to sentence Tsarnaev to die.
(8) Blatter himself was exonerated by Fifa because the receipt of commercial bribes was not a crime in Switzerland at the time he knew the money was paid to Havelange.
(9) Romania's agriculture minister Daniel Constantin angrily said an official investigation had exonerated his country's abattoirs.
(10) The 'judge-led inquiry' that never was is shut down and investigating kidnap and torture in freedom's name will be left to a watchdog that never barks and which exonerated the spooks six years ago."
(11) This is no surprise from someone who doesn’t like to read , is not fond of history showing he was sued for housing discrimination, and won’t apologize for calling for the execution of the Central Park 5 years after they were exonerated.
(12) This methodology resulted in an exoneration from the manual graphic-calculatory expenditure and in comparison to the traditional calculation method it did not show any statistically significant differences.
(13) In former times, up to the first world war, about a percentage of 74 of all criminal cases in connection with poriomania was exonerated on the erroneous assumption that the behaviour of the so-called poriomania would be caused by epilepsy.
(14) Having helped exonerate 16 clients already, Zellner said she intends to press forward with the Griggs, Johnson and Harris cases even if the DNA evidence is inconclusive.
(15) In 1967, BP chartered the vessel but was widely exonerated.
(16) Exonerated By the following morning, on 4 April, Patel's preliminary diagnosis on cause of death was being taken to mean the case was closed, while the information from Moore, Smith and Jackson did not appear to be making any difference.
(17) Why do we punish Dakota pipeline protesters but exonerate the Bundys?
(18) The sensible and motorial deficit can be decisively influenced by an early exoneration of the neurovascular septum.
(19) A government investigation has exonerated Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto and his finance minister Luis Videgaray of any wrongdoing regarding the purchase of mansions and holiday homes from public contractors .
(20) Adams insists the report exonerates him and told the Guardian he denies any wrongdoing.
Expunge
Definition:
(v. t.) To blot out, as with pen; to rub out; to efface designedly; to obliterate; to strike out wholly; as, to expunge words, lines, or sentences.
(v. t.) To strike out; to wipe out or destroy; to annihilate; as, to expugne an offense.
Example Sentences:
(1) In seeking to escape all interpretive subjectivity, medicine has threatened to expunge its primary subject--the living, experiencing patient.
(2) When you build a wall in this city to expunge, reject, thousands of people on a demographic basis, that’s un-Jewish.” “What is Jewish?” I asked.
(3) The finish was emphatic, an afternoon’s frustration expunged with one swing of his left boot.
(4) Meanwhile at the University of Oklahoma - in a state which wants to expunge its racist history from its history classes - video leaked of a fraternity singing racists chants which would have been at home in the film Birth of A Nation (if sound had only been in movies a hundred years ago).
(5) This responsibility rightly involves executing convicted murderers, including abortionists, for their crimes in order to expunge bloodguilt from the land and people.” On Wednesday Butler welcomed the minister’s decision to block the visa and rejected claims Newman had been subjected to false accusations.
(6) I want to assure the people of NSW that, as premier, I intend to overhaul the political culture of NSW so that the wrongdoings that have been uncovered in a series of recent ICAC investigations will never happen again.” Baird said he was a supporter of using public funding to pay for political campaigns, “as a mechanism to expunge the corrosive culture of political donations”.
(7) "We will be doing all we can to get this ludicrous notice expunged and hope common sense eventually prevails."
(8) Statues are removed from their plinths; the names of streets, squares, buildings and banknotes are hastily changed to expunge mentions of discredited leaders and dubious historical heroes.
(9) It was treated as a misdemeanor, and he was about to finish a diversion program which would have expunged all mention of it from his record, but it was deemed enough in the age of Trump to have him picked up and held overnight.
(10) It became so good at enabling the industry's excesses that the industry returned the favour, embroiling the agency in a drugs-and-sex scandal that forced high-level resignations and a re-branding aimed at expunging its tarnished record.
(11) One excerpt editors want to expunge from the latest edition of her 2004 novel refers to the forced abortions and sterilisations undergone by women as a result of China’s one-child policy, which was formally scrapped last month after 35 years.
(12) One raised the fact that "Pygmy" is not actually an ethnic group, but a word used by anthropologists to describe various ethnic groups whose adult males are less than 150cm tall on average , going on to ask whether, given that it "isn't a race but a rather arbitrary size categorisation … we are going to expunge all insulting language [if] it demeans someone?"
(13) The government has also said applications for expungement will be ruled on by the secretary of the Department of Justice, as they are in New South Wales.
(14) While Podemos vows to expunge corruption, the governing PP has sought to downplay its existence.
(15) "It was expunging of the soul in that song: here I am, cut me with a sword, let me bleed, and I'll get back up and we'll move on."
(16) The Earth itself being demonstrably finite and thus – even if all other life is expunged to support humanity – there is an end point.
(17) At the same time that, when it comes to poor people, vacant rooms are deemed an offence to be expunged, they grow unchecked in the most desirable parts of London.
(18) The legislation will allow men to apply for expungement of convictions they received under three previous laws criminalising “sexual intercourse against the order of nature”, “consensual sexual intercourse between males”, and “indecent practices between males”.
(19) Take the collective memory from our museums; remove the bands from our schools and choirs from our communities; lose the empathetic plays and dance from our theatres or the books from our libraries; expunge our festivals, literature and painting, and you're left with a society bereft of a national conversation … about its identity or anything else.
(20) Chinese links were expunged from the "Mandarin", a comic villain played by Ben Kingsley.