Using vindicate correctly can be a real boost to your vocabulary toolkit. If your family thinks you hogged the last piece of pie on thanksgiving, you'll be vindicated when your younger brother fesses up. When you vindicate someone, you show that they are innocent or correct.
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It’s a word that reflects truth, support, justice, and proof—powerful themes in both writing and everyday conversations. If your family thinks you hogged the last piece of pie on thanksgiving, you'll be vindicated when your younger brother fesses up. When you seek vindication, you're trying to prove or establish that innocence or correctness.
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…. There are 12 meanings listed in oed's entry for the verb vindicate, four of which are labelled obsolete. Vindicate means to justify, prove, or reinforce an idea — or to absolve from guilt. They have evidence that will vindicate [= exonerate] her.
Gregory, as if to vindicate his master, rolled on to his back and began to wave all four legs in the air. She will be completely vindicated by the evidence. See ‘meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence. The suits are valid and are being brought to vindicate legal wrongs, under both federal and state law.
