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Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for vindicate

to free from a charge or imputation of guilt

to support against arguments, attack, or criticism

to show to be just, right, or valid

to defend, maintain, or insist on the recognition of (one's rights, for example)

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to exact revenge for or from

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Synonyms for vindicate

show to be right by providing justification or proof

maintain, uphold, or defend

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clear of accusation, blame, suspicion, or doubt with supporting proof

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(NYSE: CTO) and the current members of the company's board of directors in the Circuit Court of the Seventh Judicial Circuit in and for Volusia County, Florida, in order to vindicate its right as a shareholder of the company to present a proposal to shareholders for the election of four individuals to the board at the company's upcoming annual shareholder meeting, the company said.
Manama: Salafi MP Jasem Al Saeedi, whose immunity from prosecution was recommended to be lifted by a parliamentary committee over alleged sectarian remarks, said yesterday that he was not worried as the nation and the parliament would vindicate him.
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With this edition of his most important didactic poem, Gonzalez Manjarrez hopes to vindicate Laguna and his treatise on the lament at the failure of imperial European unification under Charles V.
At a time when even our women's teams are working on the weights, we have to wonder what possesses the ancient mariners who still look upon our strength savants as professional weight-lifters and sit around waiting for the round mounds of flab like Babe Ruth and Fats Henry to come out of the woodwork and vindicate their theories about "genetic endowments" and "muscle binding."
The reforms should (1) facilitate the disclosure of useful financial information and the auditing of such disclosures, (2) increase incentives for those who are truly defrauded to obtain the compensation they deserve, (3) increase incentives for innocent victims to go to trial to vindicate themselves and (4) deter manipulation of the judicial system by overreaching attorneys pursuing meritless cases.
General said it will "vigorously defend the patent infringement lawsuit." Alan Ockene, president of General, said "General Tire has every right to manufacture and sell the Hydro 2000 and we intend to vindicate that right in court." General said the Hydro 2000 is an outgrowth of the Aquacontact tire developed by parent company Continental, which was introduced before Goodyear unveiled the Aquatred.
OLYMPIC middleweight gold medallist James DeGale believes he is on course to win a professional world title by 2012 and vindicate his decision to spurn the London Games.
"These observations are important not because the etiology of most human obesity has been elucidated--it has not--but because they vindicate an approach to this complex phenotype that emphasizes biology over `will power' and regards body weight as the result of complex interactions between genes and environment rather than a psychological aberration of free will," comments Rudolph L.
90-38, details TEI's reasons for believing it represents a questionable interpretation of the tax law and bad tax policy, and explains why the adoption of the Institute's recommendations will vindicate the legitimate interests of both taxpayers and the government.
Schulman also said that he and the other counsel in the case, "were confident that any procedural obstacles to maintenance of the suit in the court below could be overcome" and that they were "enthusiastic about litigating the merits of plaintiff's claims to vindicate public shareholders' rights to decide for themselves, free of coercion, whether or not to accept a premium offer for their shares."
The evidence, reported this week in Baltimore at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union, appears to vindicate, at least in part, the ideas of Louis A.
Nor does he even feel the need to vindicate Catholicism's claim to universality.