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What does exculpate mean?

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  1. To clear of or to free from guilt; exonerate.
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But he was painfully anxious to exculpate himself from the guilt of having acted undutifully and disrespectfully towards France.
The mother in her evidence tried hard to exculpate the father from any responsibility.
Therefore it should not be possible for the director to exculpate himself by consent of the company.
An indictment is valid even if the grand jurors have no knowledge, in voting to indict, that evidence exists that would exculpate the defendant.
This seemed to be an easy-to-resolve ambiguity, rather than anything that was going to exculpate anybody.
A year later he also sought to exculpate himself in the pages of a ghost-written autobiography, Between the Lines.

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