What's the difference between exonerate and vindicate?

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.

Vindicate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To lay claim to; to assert a right to; to claim.
  • (v. t.) To maintain or defend with success; to prove to be valid; to assert convincingly; to sustain against assault; as, to vindicate a right, claim, or title.
  • (v. t.) To support or maintain as true or correct, against denial, censure, or objections; to defend; to justify.
  • (v. t.) To maintain, as a law or a cause, by overthrowing enemies.
  • (v. t.) To liberate; to set free; to deliver.
  • (v. t.) To avenge; to punish; as, a war to vindicate or punish infidelity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In some respects, the impasse is a vindication of the UK electorate’s decision to leave the EU and pursue its own agreements.” He said when the UK government was free to make its own trade deals after leaving the EU, it should target willing partners such as emerging markets.
  • (2) It’s about state sovereignty.” The BLM’s retreat vindicated his stance, he said, tapping a copy of the US constitution which he keeps in a breast pocket.
  • (3) In the end, Jill feels her decision was vindicated when her marriage broke up after she discovered he was having an affair.
  • (4) Jonathan Rees, who was yesterday cleared of murdering his former business partner, Daniel Morgan, is a private investigator of a particularly unpleasant and vindicative kind.
  • (5) It represents something of a vindication for Spielberg whose last high-minded awards contender, the first-world-war drama War Horse, failed to win anything at the last edition of either the Globes or the Oscars.
  • (6) Yet victory at Wembley will be hailed as vindication of the decision to change manager.
  • (7) The damning comments by Judge Alistair McCreath both vindicated Contostavlos – who insisted she was entrapped by the reporter into promising to arrange a cocaine deal – and potentially brought down the curtain on the long and controversial career of Mahmood, better known as the "fake sheikh" after one of his common disguises.
  • (8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Osborne: Google tax deal vindicates government approach The Guardian understands that Google’s 2014-15 taxes increased by £13.8m under the new formula.
  • (9) Vilified, prosecuted, but – in the court of public opinion – ultimately vindicated: this is what happens to the heroes of democracy.
  • (10) George Osborne, the shadow chancellor, said: "This is hugely significant, as it completely vindicates the big decision taken by David Cameron and myself on the economy, and it leaves Gordon Brown's political plans for the G20 and the budget in tatters."
  • (11) Cimarosa's break with the rules of omertà appears to vindicate the policy of asset seizures, which have cut Messina Denaro's cash flow and forced him to squeeze his backers harder for funds.
  • (12) Stable healing of the ligament and a good functional result in all cases as well as a very low rate of complications vindicate this management.
  • (13) Balls also reveals the personal sense of vindication he felt when the chancellor had to admit in the autumn statement how much higher borrowing is going to be in the future.
  • (14) Every effort was made to discredit those who rejected the case for invasion and occupation – and would before long be comprehensively vindicated.
  • (15) The press conference comes one day after the White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, said Trump was “extremely confident” that the justice department would produce evidence to the House committee that vindicated the president’s accusation.
  • (16) The comedy, in which she stars as gaffe-prone vice-president Selina Meyer, has been seen as a personal triumph for Louis-Dreyfus, as well as a stateside vindication for the comic method of its creator, Armando Iannucci .
  • (17) That reality, and its vindication of the miners’ stand , is well understood 30 years later, and reflected in the power of contemporary films such as Pride and the new documentary Still the Enemy Within .
  • (18) Pékerman had insisted life would go on without Falcao and was thoroughly vindicated.
  • (19) Schalke's 20-year-old Ivan Rakitic showed why he is so highly rated and vindicated Bilic's decision to aim for more mobility by picking him as an auxiliary attacker at the expense of Mladen Petric.
  • (20) The results also vindicate the current policy of giving BCG vaccine at birth and probably indicates the need to revaccinate at school leaving age, in accordance with WHO recommendations.