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Exonerated vs Exonerate - What's the difference?

exonerated | exonerate |

As verbs the difference between exonerated and exonerate

is that exonerated is (exonerate) while exonerate is to relieve (someone or something) of a load; to unburden (a load).

As an adjective exonerated

is freed from any question of guilt, acquitted.

exonerated

English

Adjective

(head)
  • Freed from any question of guilt, acquitted.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (exonerate)
  • exonerate

    English

    Verb

    (exonerat)
  • 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:
  • 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?
  • To free from an obligation, responsibility or task.
  • To free from accusation or blame.
  • Synonyms

    * (to free from accusation ) acquit English transitive verbs ----