Meaning of vindicate in English

vindicate

verb [ T ]

/ˈvɪn.dɪ.keɪt/ us

/ˈvɪn.də.keɪt/

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to prove that what someone said or did was right or trueafter other people thought it was wrong:

The decision to include Morris in the team was completely vindicated when he scored two goals.

The investigation vindicated her complaint about the newspaper.

to prove that someone is not guilty or is free from blameafter other people blamed them:

They said they welcomed the trial as a chance to vindicate themselves.

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vindicate

verb [ T ]

/ˈvɪn·dɪˌkeɪt/

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to show something to have been right or trueor to show someone to be free from guilt or blame:

The decision to include Morris on the team was vindicated when he scored three touchdowns.

vindication

noun [ C/U ] us

/ˌvɪn·dɪˈkeɪ·ʃən/

[ U ] They are hoping for vindication in court.

(Definition of vindicate from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of vindicate

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Through the completion of the projectthe college has clearly vindicated andindeedexceeded its ambition.

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The assumption following concerning the time-scale of the large-scale field may now be vindicated.

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How can coercionby definition a compromise of external freedom-that freedomthat isordinarily protected and vindicated by the doctrine of right-be compatible with right?

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Such assessments would soon appear to be vindicated.

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In facthis argument seems vindicated in most industrial democracies for the last two decades.

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He concludes that all three hypotheses were supported and that the critical period hypothesis is vindicated.

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The brothers' attitudes toward institutions could be quite instrumentala point vindicated by the institutional track record of the two protagonists.

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Her instincts were vindicated by society criticswhoon the wholefound her a powerful alternative to the play's showy amoralists.

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His anger imparted his acute sense of betrayal and the necessity of vindicating his maturity.

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Thuspremise will not standand explanatory ecumenism can be vindicated.

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The wisdom of this choice was not vindicated by subsequent history.

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The current study indicates that the value of such detail has vindicated the time spent in transcribing them.

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He could not be vindicated by any other principleseither.

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If the content of the cophonologies themselves were sufficient to account for reduplication datathen we could indeed conclude that the morpheme-based view is vindicated.

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Figure 2 vindicates these theoretical expectationssummarizing district-level estimates of coalition sticking by party and coalition.

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