vindicate
B2CEFR level
58/100Rarity: uncommon
FormalRegister
General verb
To clear of blame or suspicion, or to prove that something is justified.
The later verdict vindicated her insistence that she had been framed.
Law verb
To clear someone of blame or suspicion.
The fresh alibi evidence finally vindicated the wrongly convicted man after fifteen years.
Business verb
To clear of blame or prove to be justified.
The forensic report vindicated the whistleblower who had flagged the accounting gaps.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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