exonerate
English
Etymology
From Middle English exoneraten (attested in past participle exonerated), from Latin exonerāt-, the participle stem of exonerāre, from exonerō (“to discharge, unload; to exonerate”), from ex- (prefix denoting privation) + onerō (“to burden, lade; to load”) (from onus (“burden, load”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃énh₂os (“burden, load”), from *h₃enh₂- (“to charge, onerate”)). The English word is cognate with French exonérer.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪɡˈzɒnəɹeɪt/, /ɛɡ-/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɪɡˈzɑnəˌɹeɪt/, /ɛɡ-/
Audio (General American): (file) Audio (General Australian): (file) - Hyphenation: ex‧o‧ner‧ate
Verb
exonerate (third-person singular simple present exonerates, present participle exonerating, simple past and past participle exonerated)
- (transitive, archaic) To relieve (someone or something) of a load; to unburden (a load).
- (obsolete, reflexive) Of a body of water: to discharge or empty (itself).
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section ii, member 3, page 231:
- I would examine the Caſpian Sea, and ſee where and how it exonerates it ſelfe, after it hath taken in Volga, Iaxares, Oxus, and thoſe great rivers; at the mouth of Oby, or where?
- (transitive) To free (someone) from an obligation, responsibility or task.
- (transitive) To free (someone) from accusation or blame.
- Synonyms: acquit, exculpate; see also Thesaurus:acquit
Derived terms
- exonerated (adjective)
- exoneration
- exonerative
- exonerator
Translations
to relieve (someone or something) of a load; to unburden (a load)
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of a body of water: to discharge or empty (itself)
to free from an obligation, responsibility or task
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to free from accusation or blame
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Adjective
exonerate
- (archaic) Freed from an obligation; freed from accusation or blame; acquitted, exonerated.
Latin
Verb
exonerāte
Spanish
Verb
exonerate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of exonerar combined with te
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