exculpate
ek skuhl payt
- v pronounce not guilty of criminal charges
- Every member of the caucus tried to exculpate himself by declaring that he took part in the plot under duress.
- The defendant attempted to exculpate himself by providing an alibi that placed him far from the scene of the crime.
- These days the Kremlin's Communists have one basic task on their minds: they hope, by pinning responsibility for Communist crimes of the past 20 years on Stalin, to exculpate .