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词汇 exculpate
释义 exculpate
verb[ T ]
 formaluk /ˈek.skəl.peɪt/ us /ˈek.skəl.peɪt/
to remove blame from someone: 为…开脱;证明…无罪
The pilot of the aircraft will surely be exculpated when all the facts are known.当一切真相大白时,肯定可以证明飞行员是没有过错的。
Synonyms
clear
exonerateformal
Opposite
convict
Compare
acquit
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Innocent
acquit
acquit someone of something
acquittal
be above/beyond reproachidiom
be in the clearidiom
clear of something
cleared
come up/out smelling of rosesidiom
culpability
culpably
guiltless
guiltlessly
inculpable
innocence
innocency
reproach
self-exculpation
sinless
sinlessly
squeaky-clean

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exculpatory

Examples of exculpate


exculpate
This shows that willingness to do everything possible to help the embryo survive is not sufficient to exculpate the agents from the charge of instrumentalization.
Instead, consistent with his own left-liberal politics, he exculpated the state's bourgeois critics by celebrating the emancipatory potential of rational criticism.
Accordingly, exculpatory defences ought to be structured so as to allow any honest misperception that blocks the requisite inference to exculpate regardless of its unreasonableness.
Defenders of technology point to the lack of financial resources and exculpate technology from criticism.
Proportionality cannot be the issue because the doctrine of double effect was designed to exculpate people from the wrong of intending a forbidden act.
He culpably caused the condition that would negate the prima facie case, but not with purpose, knowledge or recklessness that he would be exculpated.
But such an approach would allow sincere mistakes of law to exculpate as well (p. 180 + 2).
From time immemorial, of course, negligence by the injured employee that contributed significantly to causing the accident had exculpated the employer.
When should ignorance of law exculpate?
The third death mirrors the second insofar as "expert" inquiry into the situation reveals previously hidden lines of causation, which this time inculpate rather than exculpate another character.
And when she will have to render the account of her deeds, she cannot attribute her beliefs and deeds to her menfolk in order to get herself exculpated.
I am glad that he and his colleagues have exculpated me of bowling googlies.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
Neither the armed forces nor the secret services have been exculpated as a consequence of the peace treaties.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
According to him, the police could be exculpated from all responsibility for the loss of confidence that has occurred.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
The word "exculpate" applies the idea of having committed some fault.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
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