vindicate
- Verb. To clear from an accusation, suspicion or criticism.
- Verb. To justify by providing evidence.
- Verb. To maintain or defend a cause against opposition.
- Verb. To provide justification for.
- Verb. To lay claim to; to assert a right to; to claim.
- Verb. (obsolete) To liberate; to set free; to deliver.
- Verb. (obsolete) To avenge; to punish.
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