Word Meanings - VINDICATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To lay claim to; to assert a right to; to claim. Is thine alone the seed that strews the plain The birds of heaven shall vindicate their grain. Pope. 2. To maintain or defend with success; to prove to be valid; to assert convincingly; to sustain

Additional info about word: VINDICATE

1. To lay claim to; to assert a right to; to claim. Is thine alone the seed that strews the plain The birds of heaven shall vindicate their grain. Pope. 2. 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. 3. To support or maintain as true or correct, against denial, censure, or objections; to defend; to justify. When the respondent denies any proposition, the opponent must directly vindicate . . . that proposition. I. Watts. Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man. Pope. 4. To maintain, as a law or a cause, by overthrowing enemies. Milton. 5. To liberate; to set free; to deliver. I am confident he deserves much more That vindicates his country from a tyrant Than he that saves a citizen. Massinger. 6. To avenge; to punish; as, a war to vindicate or punish infidelity. Bacon. God is more powerful to exact subjection and to vindicate rebellion. Bp. Pearson. Syn. -- To assert; maintain; claim. See Assert.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of VINDICATE)

• Arrogate
• Claim
• assume
• vindicate
• assert
• demand
• Avenge
• Vindicate
• right
• visit
• retaliate
• Clean Clarify
• disencumber
• disentangle
• disembarrass
• liberate
• set free
• release
• exonerate
• exculpate
• justify
• retrieve
• acquit
• absolve
• whitewash
• extricate
• eliminate
• Exculpate
• Defend
• Excuse
• pardon
• forgive
• overlook
• condone
• i emit
• indulge
• defend
• mitigate
• extenuate
• exempt

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of VINDICATE)

• Forego
• waive
• disclaim
• abjure
• disavow
• abandon
• concede
• surrender
• repudiate
• Bind
• constrain
• confine
• shackle
• fetter
• yoke

Related words: (words related to VINDICATE)

• RIGHT-RUNNING
  Straight; direct.
• ACQUIT
  Acquitted; set free; rid of. Shak.
• DEMANDRESS
  A woman who demands.
• EXCUSEMENT
  Excuse. Gower.
• CLEANSABLE
  Capable of being cleansed. Sherwood.
• PARDON
  A release, by a sovereign, or officer having jurisdiction, from the penalties of an offense, being distinguished from amenesty, which is a general obliteration and canceling of a particular line of past offenses. Syn. -- Forgiveness; remission.
• CONFINER
  One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
• CLEAN-CUT
  See CLEAR-CUT
• RELEASE
  To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
• ELIMINATE
  To cause to disappear from an equation; as, to eliminate an unknown quantity. 3. To set aside as unimportant in a process of inductive inquiry; to leave out of consideration. Eliminate errors that have been gathering and accumulating. Lowth. 4.
• ASSERT
  self, claim, maintain; ad + serere to join or bind together. See 1. To affirm; to declare with assurance, or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate. Nothing is more shameful . . . than to assert anything to
• CLEANNESS
  1. The state or quality of being clean. 2. Purity of life or language; freedom from licentious courses. Chaucer.
• RIGHTEOUSNESS
  The state of being right with God; justification; the work of Christ, which is the ground justification. There are two kinds of Christian righteousness: the one without us, which we have by imputation; the other in us, which consisteth of faith,
• ASSERTORY
  Affirming; maintaining. Arguments . . . assertory, not probatory. Jer. Taylor. An assertory, not a promissory, declaration. Bentham. A proposition is assertory, when it enounces what is known as actual. Sir W. Hamilton.
• DISAVOWANCE
  Disavowal. South.
• EXCUSE
  1. To free from accusation, or the imputation of fault or blame; to clear from guilt; to release from a charge; to justify by extenuating a fault; to exculpate; to absolve; to acquit. A man's persuasion that a thing is duty, will not excuse him
• AVENGERESS
  A female avenger. Spenser.
• DISENCUMBER
  To free from encumbrance, or from anything which clogs, impedes, or obstructs; to disburden. Owen. I have disencumbered myself from rhyme. Dryden.
• VISITATION
  The act of a naval commander who visits, or enters on board, a vessel belonging to another nation, for the purpose of ascertaining her character and object, but without claiming or exercising a right of searching the vessel. It is, however, usually
• DISAVOWMENT
  Disavowal. Wotton.
• BRIGHT
  See I
• RECLAIMABLE
  That may be reclaimed.
• CARTWRIGHT
  An artificer who makes carts; a cart maker.
• RECLAIMER
  One who reclaims.
• ACCLAIM
  1. To applaud. "A glad acclaiming train." Thomson. 2. To declare by acclamations. While the shouting crowd Acclaims thee king of traitors. Smollett. 3. To shout; as, to acclaim my joy.
• UNCLEAN
  1. Not clean; foul; dirty; filthy. 2. Ceremonially impure; needing ritual cleansing. He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days. Num. xix. 11. 3. Morally impure. "Adultery of the heart, consisting of inordinate
• FRIGHTFUL
  1. Full of fright; affrighted; frightened. See how the frightful herds run from the wood. W. Browne. 2. Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance. Syn.
• SPRIGHTLY
  Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance. "Sprightly wit and love inspires." Dryden. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green. Pope.