Crossword-Solution: VINDICATE 9 letters, 29 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

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Word Word Type Definition
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
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.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1992
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.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992
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.
Paradise Regained John Milton 1993
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.
Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1993
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.
The Moonstone Wilkie Collins 1994

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…
Daniel J. Flynn Intellectual Morons: How Ideology Makes Smart People Fall for Stupid Ideas
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.
Aberjhani Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance
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…
Ayn Rand
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Appears in: Boston Globe, NYT.

Used 2 times in crossword archives (1992–2012).