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