Definition of "exonerate"

exonerate

/ɪɡˈzɒnəɹeɪt/

verb
third-person singular simple present exonerates, present participle exonerating, simple past and past participle exonerated
1. (transitive, archaic) To relieve (someone or something) of a load; to unburden (a load).
2. (obsolete, reflexive) Of a body of water: to discharge or empty (itself).
  Quotations
  I would examine the Caſpian Sea, and ſee where and how it exonerates it ſelfe, after it hath taken in Volga, Iaxares, Oxus, and thoſe great rivers; at the mouth of Oby, or where?
  1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, partition II, section ii, member 3, page 231
3. (transitive) To free (someone) from an obligation, responsibility or task.
4. (transitive) To free (someone) from accusation or blame.
adjective
1. (archaic) Freed from an obligation; freed from accusation or blame; acquitted, exonerated.