exculpate
verb (formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they exculpate | |
| he / she / it exculpates | |
| past simple exculpated | |
| past participle exculpated | |
| -ing form exculpating |
- exculpate somebody
to prove or state officially that somebody is not guilty of something 证明（或宣布）无罪；为（某人）开脱 The defendant was able to exculpate himself from liability. 被告能够免除自己的责任。
Word Originmid 17th cent.: from medieval Latin exculpat- ‘freed from blame’, from the verb exculpare, from ex- ‘out, from’ + Latin culpa ‘blame’.