verb
- to clear from blame or guilt; to prove innocent
Usage: formal
Examples
- The new evidence helped exculpate the defendant.
- DNA testing exculpated him after twenty years in prison.
- The investigation failed to exculpate any of the suspects.
- She hoped the witness testimony would exculpate her brother.
- The audit was designed to exculpate the company from fraud charges.
- His alibi served to exculpate him completely.