exculpated
- v pronounce not guilty of criminal charges
- s freed from any question of guilt
- Professor Rowan associates quickly exculpated the water.
- But, although the Senate Judiciary Committee found many points to censure in the company's methods, the Senate as a whole exculpated it of illegal tactics.
- For a time, attention focused on Scaramella, but by the end of last week his level of poisoning and other evidence exculpated him of any suspicion.