(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.
Free
Definition:
(superl.) Exempt from subjection to the will of others; not under restraint, control, or compulsion; able to follow one's own impulses, desires, or inclinations; determining one's own course of action; not dependent; at liberty.
(superl.) Not under an arbitrary or despotic government; subject only to fixed laws regularly and fairly administered, and defended by them from encroachments upon natural or acquired rights; enjoying political liberty.
(superl.) Liberated, by arriving at a certain age, from the control of parents, guardian, or master.
(superl.) Not confined or imprisoned; released from arrest; liberated; at liberty to go.
(superl.) Not subjected to the laws of physical necessity; capable of voluntary activity; endowed with moral liberty; -- said of the will.
(superl.) Clear of offense or crime; guiltless; innocent.
(superl.) Unconstrained by timidity or distrust; unreserved; ingenuous; frank; familiar; communicative.
(superl.) Unrestrained; immoderate; lavish; licentious; -- used in a bad sense.
(superl.) Not close or parsimonious; liberal; open-handed; lavish; as, free with his money.
(superl.) Exempt; clear; released; liberated; not encumbered or troubled with; as, free from pain; free from a burden; -- followed by from, or, rarely, by of.
(superl.) Characteristic of one acting without restraint; charming; easy.
(superl.) Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping; spirited; as, a free horse.
(superl.) Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying certain immunities or privileges; admitted to special rights; -- followed by of.
(superl.) Thrown open, or made accessible, to all; to be enjoyed without limitations; unrestricted; not obstructed, engrossed, or appropriated; open; -- said of a thing to be possessed or enjoyed; as, a free school.
(superl.) Not gained by importunity or purchase; gratuitous; spontaneous; as, free admission; a free gift.
(superl.) Not arbitrary or despotic; assuring liberty; defending individual rights against encroachment by any person or class; instituted by a free people; -- said of a government, institutions, etc.
(superl.) Certain or honorable; the opposite of base; as, free service; free socage.
(superl.) Privileged or individual; the opposite of common; as, a free fishery; a free warren.
(superl.) Not united or combined with anything else; separated; dissevered; unattached; at liberty to escape; as, free carbonic acid gas; free cells.
(adv.) Freely; willingly.
(adv.) Without charge; as, children admitted free.
(a.) To make free; to set at liberty; to rid of that which confines, limits, embarrasses, oppresses, etc.; to release; to disengage; to clear; -- followed by from, and sometimes by off; as, to free a captive or a slave; to be freed of these inconveniences.
(a.) To remove, as something that confines or bars; to relieve from the constraint of.
(a.) To frank.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cancer patients showed abnormally high plasma free tryptophan levels.
(2) In conclusion, the efficacy of free tissue transfer in the treatment of osteomyelitis is geared mainly at enabling the surgeon to perform a wide radical debridement of infected and nonviable soft tissue and bone.
(3) The authors have presented in two previous articles the graphic solutions resembling Tscherning ellipses, for spherical as well as for aspherical ophthalmic lenses free of astigmatism or power error.
(4) The hypothesis that proteins are critical targets in free radical mediated cytolysis was tested using U937 mononuclear phagocytes as targets and iron together with hydrogen peroxide to generate radicals.
(5) With NaCl as the major constituent of the bathing solution (potassium-free pipette and external solutions) the reversal potential (Er) of the noradrenaline-evoked current was about 0 mV.
(6) In cardiac tissue the adenylate system is not a good indicator of the energy state of the mitochondrion, even when the concentrations of AMP and free cytosolic ADP are calculated from the adenylate kinase and creatine kinase equilibria.
(7) The promoters of the adenovirus 2 major late gene, the mouse beta-globin gene, the mouse immunoglobulin VH gene and the LTR of the human T-lymphotropic retrovirus type I were tested for their transcription activities in cell-free extracts of four cell lines; HeLa, CESS (Epstein-Barr virus-transformed human B cell line), MT-1 (HTLV-I-infected human T cell line without viral protein synthesis), and MT-2 (HTLV-I-infected human T cell line producing viral proteins).
(8) This frees the student to experience the excitement and challenge of learning and the joy of helping people.
(9) The role of O2 free radicals in the reduction of sarcolemmal Na+-K+-ATPase, which occurs during reperfusion of ischemic heart, was examined in isolated guinea pig heart using exogenous scavengers of O2 radicals and an inhibitor of xanthine oxidase.
(10) This sling was constructed bu freeing the insertion of the pubococcygeus and the ileococcygeus muscles from the coccyx.
(11) In Ca free-solution phenylephrine inhibited the response to CaCl2.
(12) The actuarial 5-year disease-free survival rates were 83% (group 1), 83% (group 2), and 100% (group 3).
(13) Their effects on various lipid fractions, viz., triglycerides (TG), phospholipids, free cholesterol, and esterified cholesterol, were studied in liver, plasma, gonads, and muscle.
(14) These deficiencies in the data compromise HIV surveillance based on diagnostic testing, and supplementary bias-free data are needed.
(15) The authors conclude that H. pylori alone causes little or no effect on an intact gastric mucosa in the rat, that either intact organisms or bacteria-free filtrates cause similar prolongation and delayed healing of pre-existing ulcers with active chronic inflammation, and that the presence of predisposing factors leading to disruption of gastric mucosal integrity may be required for the H. pylori enhancement of inflammation and tissue damage in the stomach.
(16) Only those derivatives with a free amino group and net positive charge in the side chain were effective.
(17) Under milder trypsin digestion conditions three resistant fragments were produced from the free protein.
(18) "This was very strategic and it was in line of the ideology of the Bush administration which has been to put in place a free market and conservative agenda."
(19) To determine the influence of cetylpyridinium chloride (CPC) adsorption on the wettability and elemental surface composition of human enamel, with and without adsorbed salivary constituents, surface-free energies and elemental compositions were determined.
(20) By growing purified human cytotrophoblasts under serum-free conditions and manipulating the culture surface, we were able to disassociate morphologic from biochemical differentiation.