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–verb (used with object)
1. to clear,
as from an accusation, imputation (歸罪), suspicion, or the like:
to vindicate someone's [honor].
2. to afford justification for; justify: Subsequent events vindicated [his policy].
3. to uphold or justify by argument or evidence: to vindicate a [claim].
4. to assert, maintain, or defend (a right, cause, etc.) against opposition.
5. to claim for oneself or another.
6. Roman and Civil Law. to regain possession, under claim of title of property through legal procedure, or to assert one's right to possession.
7. to get revenge for; avenge.
8. Obsolete. to deliver from; liberate.
9. Obsolete. to punish.
—Synonyms
1. exonerate. (使免受指控) 3, 4. support.
Many viewers who felt let down by The Dreamers' treatment of the events of '68
may feel vindicated by this work.
Cinematographically, Philippe Garrel [employs] [gritty, grainy] black-and-white to impart a docudrama quality
to the motion picture (and thus, the suggestion of the political protests actually transpiring [as] the film [unspools]).
vindictive nemesis
virulent
inextricable inexorably inexorable [truth], inexorable [justice]. (unyielding!!!)
exorbitant
Dingy
indict (of a grand jury) to bring a formal accusation against
recrimination countercharge
refute to prove to be erroneous, rebut & confute ...I refute the accusation that
castigate to reprimand severely, punish ...castigating him as a "narcissistic" part of the human anatomy
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- Sep 12 Fri 2008 16:54
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