What's the difference between exonerate and unburden?

Exonerate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To unload; to disburden; to discharge.
  • (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.

Unburden


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To relieve from a burden.
  • (v. t.) To throw off, as a burden; to unload.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Practically all patients with an unburdened anamnesis showed abacillation and healing of the cavities under the effect of this treatment.
  • (2) "Greeks need to unburden their fears," says the comic, the scent of cologne permeating his dressing room after he has danced, sung and quipped his way through another rendition of "Sorry … I'm Greek".
  • (3) Reasons for deciding on vasectomy were varied, but generally revolved around the absolute effectiveness of the procedure and the need to unburden the wife of contraceptive responsibility.
  • (4) Citizen journalism is also most effective when conducted in tandem with fact-checking professional journalists, who can work unburdened of the official directives currently being issued on how a big news story should – or shouldn't – be told.
  • (5) Walking distance was increased by more than 50% by comparison with an unburdened walk in seven patients with the endurance walking test but in only three patients with the six minute walking test.
  • (6) The students come away unburdened with the sense of inferiority that every previous generation had been instilled with since the days in which the British first labelled Irish as backward.
  • (7) Constantly harassed in airports by South Korean and Japanese journalists, he unwisely unburdened himself to some: notably Yoji Gomi , who published a book based on extensive email exchanges.
  • (8) Peggy, finally unburdened, jumped straight on on the phone to Stan … ‘There’s more to life than work’ – Stan Having been staring at him right in the face, Peggy Olson finally found a man worthy of her.
  • (9) The additional work of carrying the portable gas supply reduced endurance walking distance by 22.2% and six minute walking distance by 14.1% by comparison with a baseline unburdened walk.
  • (10) And being typecast as a “gay film-maker” can be divisive: “There is still this weird feeling that gay people are fundamentally different from straight people when, actually, we have similar fears and doubts and hopes – although we might have slightly more emotional baggage to drag along for being a minority.” He needed to unburden himself of some of his ideas in a non-gay framework.
  • (11) The current community mental health movement, struggling under the misnomer "deinstitutionalization," is a worthy effort that can succeed if given adequate support and unburdened of pessimism and scapegoating.
  • (12) Or why he's chosen to unburden himself about it now.
  • (13) And Harmers could now go about its business unburdened by judicial criticism.
  • (14) For all of Lloyd’s ability, her best self only arrived in Canada when US coach Jill Ellis made a tactical shift that placed Lloyd closer to goal and unburdened her of defensive duties.
  • (15) It’s the only place he feels he can unburden some of the weary load he carries on this lonely journey.
  • (16) The NHS’s problem is resources not doctors | Letters Read more For those unburdened by anti-Tory prejudice, another interpretation is possible: that the greatest threat to the NHS is not the Conservative party but its own failure to respond to modernity.
  • (17) The era of brand decontamination appears now to be firmly behind Hague, for he seems unburdened by any concern to distance himself from the past.
  • (18) Others are really gentle and very good at listening.” Pizii, a breast-cancer survivor herself, understands that for some women the need to unburden is as important as the activities.
  • (19) Early animal testing of these systems indicated that they could be effective in unburdening the heart cavities during left and right bypasses.
  • (20) On the other hand I was able to experience the moment completely unburdened.

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