Crossword-Solution: VINDICATE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Vindicate | v. t. | To lay claim to; to assert a right to; to claim. |
| Vindicate | v. t. | To maintain or defend with success; to prove to be valid; to assert convincingly; to sustain against assault; as, to vindicate a right, claim, or title. |
| Vindicate | v. t. | To support or maintain as true or correct, against denial, censure, or objections; to defend; to justify. |
| Vindicate | v. t. | To maintain, as a law or a cause, by overthrowing enemies. |
| Vindicate | v. t. | To liberate; to set free; to deliver. |
| Vindicate | v. t. | To avenge; to punish; as, a war to vindicate or punish infidelity. |
We have 29 clues for the answer “VINDICATE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Clear one's name, say | 1 answer |
| Clear one's name of | 1 answer |
| Clear of blame | 3 answers |
| Declare someone blameless or free from guilt | 4 answers |
| Free from blame | 5 answers |
| DECLARE innocent | 6 answers |
| blanch over | 14 answers |
| assoil | 15 answers |
| Sugar-coat | 19 answers |
| extenuate | 22 answers |
| prove | 22 answers |
| MAKE equal | 25 answers |
| Palliate | 26 answers |
| Exonerate | 28 answers |
| Varnish | 28 answers |
| avenge | 30 answers |
| Veneer | 31 answers |
| exculpate | 37 answers |
| uphold | 38 answers |
| Justify | 39 answers |
| acquit | 43 answers |
| Assert | 45 answers |
| absolve | 45 answers |
| Assuage | 46 answers |
| confirm | 47 answers |
| Defend | 50 answers |
| Verify | 52 answers |
| COMFORT ___ | 89 answers |
| CLEAR ___ | 106 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with VINDICATE (5)
Does he ever venture to vindicate his conduct, when censured for it? Then he is guilty of impudence,—one of the greatest crimes of which a slave can be guilty.
Then why—since the choice was with himself—should the individual, whose connexion with the fallen woman had been the most intimate and sacred of them all, come forward to vindicate his claim to an inheritance so little desirable? He resolved not to be pilloried beside her on her pedestal of shame.
Behold the kings of the earth, how they oppress Thy Chosen, to what highth their power unjust They have exalted, and behind them cast All fear of Thee; arise, and vindicate Thy glory; free thy people from their yoke! But let us wait; thus far He hath performed— Sent his Anointed, and to us revealed him 50 By his great Prophet pointed at and shown In public, and with him we have conversed.
The license which I would here vindicate, is so necessary to the execution of my plan, that I will crave your patience while I illustrate my argument a little farther.
Franklin Blake, she is (as I interpret it) eager to tell him with her own lips, _before_ he is put to the test which is to vindicate his character in the eyes of other people.
Quotes with VINDICATE (3)
What never fails inside the mind of an intellectual never works outside the confines of his head. The world’s stubborn refusal to vindicate the intellectual’s theories serves as proof of humanity’s irrationality, not his own. Thus, the true believer retrenches rather than rethinks; he launches a war on the world, denying reality because it fails to conform to his theories. If intellectuals are not prepared to reconcile theory and practice, then why do they bother to venture o…
The leaders and followers of the Harlem Renaissance were every bit as intent on using Black culture to help make the United States a more functional democracy as they were on employing Black culture to 'vindicate' Black people.
If this is vise I want no virtue.... I know what happiness is possible to me on earth. And my happiness needs no higher aim to vindicate it. My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose. Neither am I the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a bandage for their wounds. I am not a sacrifice on their altars.... But what is freedom? Freedom f…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1992–2012).