Definition of vindicate verb in oxford advanced american dictionary. Learn the meaning and correct usage of vindicate. To prove that what someone said or did was right or true, after other people thought it was….
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Vindicate means to justify, prove, or reinforce an idea — or to absolve from guilt.
If your family thinks you hogged the last piece of pie on thanksgiving, you'll be vindicated when your younger brother fesses up.
The director said he had been vindicated by the experts' report. If your family thinks you hogged the last piece of pie on thanksgiving, you'll be vindicated when your younger brother fesses up. See ‘meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence. If a person or their decisions, actions, or ideas are vindicated, they are proved to be correct, after people have said that they were wrong.
Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more. To clear, as from an accusation or suspicion: Vindicate means to justify, prove, or reinforce an idea — or to absolve from guilt. To uphold or justify by argument or evidence.
There are 12 meanings listed in oed's entry for the verb vindicate, four of which are labelled obsolete.
