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vin·di·cate (vin′də kāt′)

transitive verb vindicated -·cat′ed, vindicating -·cat′·ing

  1. to clear from criticism, blame, guilt, suspicion, etc.; uphold by evidence or argument
  2. to defend or maintain (a cause, claim, etc.) against opposition
  3. to serve as justification for; justify a success which vindicated their belief in him
  4. to lay claim to or establish possession of (something for oneself or another)
  5. Obsolete
    1. to avenge
    2. to punish

Etymology: < L vindicatus, pp. of vindicare, to claim, avenge < ? vim, force (see vim) + dicere, to say: see diction

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vindicate Synonyms

vindicate

v.

  1. To clear

    acquit, free, absolve; see absolve, excuse.

  2. To defend

    plead for, second, support; see defend 3.

  3. To justify

    prove, bear out, warrant; see justify 2. See syn. study at absolve.


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vindicate Usage Examples

Object

  • claim: We have also developed parallel SP algorithms and the computational results vindicate the long-standing claim that such algorithms achieve both speed-up and scale-up.

Subject

  • spirit: Then he " was vindicated by the Spirit " .

Modifying Another Word

  • triumphantly: The possibility of whatever enters into the wildest imagination to conceive is thus triumphantly vindicated.

Used with why or when

  • what: For Raymond this has fully vindicated what he intuitively felt would emerge from our earliest meetings.

Preposition: by

  • spirit: Then he " was vindicated by the Spirit " .
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vindicate quotes

   Eye Nature's walks, shoot Folly as it flies, And catch the Manners living as they rise. Laugh where we must, be candid where we can; But vindicate the ways of God to man. See Milton 580:93.

-Pope, Alexander

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