meaning of exonerate
1. To unload; to disburden; to discharge.
2. 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 ones self from blame, or from the charge of avarice.
3. To discharge from duty or obligation, as a ball.
4. pronounce not guilty of criminal charges; "The suspect was cleared of the murder
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