Exonerate vs Exoneration - What's the difference?
exonerate | exoneration |
To relieve (someone or something) of a load; to unburden (a load).
(obsolete, reflexive) Of a body of water, to discharge (oneself), empty oneself.
*, II.ii.3:
To free from an obligation, responsibility or task.
To free from accusation or blame.
An act of disburdening, discharging, or freeing morally from a charge or imputation
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(uncountable) The state of being disburdened or freed from a charge.
As a verb exonerate
is to relieve (someone or something) of a load; to unburden (a load).As a noun exoneration is
exoneration.exonerate
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Verb
(exonerat)- I would examine the Caspian Sea, and see where and how it exonerates itself, after it hath taken in Volga, Iaxartes, Oxus, and those great rivers; at the mouth of Obi, or where?
Synonyms
* (to free from accusation ) acquit English transitive verbs ----exoneration
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Noun
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