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vindicated

Word definitions for vindicated in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Vindicated may refer to: Vindicated (book) , a 2006 book by former baseball player José Canseco "Vindicated" (song) , a 2004 song from Dashboard Confessional "Vindicated" (Invader Zim) , an episode of American animated series Invader Zim

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vindicate \Vin"di*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Vindicated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Vindicating .] [L. vindicatus, p. p. of vindicare to lay claim to, defend, avenge. See Vengeance .] To lay claim to; to assert a right to; to claim. [R.] Is thine alone the seed that ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
justified, avenged or cleared of blame v (en-past of: vindicate )

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. freed from any question of guilt; "is absolved from all blame"; "was now clear of the charge of cowardice"; "his official honor is vindicated" [syn: absolved , clear , cleared , exculpated , exonerated ]

Usage examples of vindicated.

When Korik, Sill, and Doar were defeated by the Illearth Stone and Ravers, they vindicated the ire of the Ramen.

The name and cause of the Abbassides had been first vindicated by the Persians: the West had been pure from civil arms.

Now, if such predictions in connection with the natal hours of others who are not twins are to be vindicated on the ground that they are founded on the observation of more extended spaces in the heavens, whilst those very small moments of time which separated the births of twins, and correspond to minute portions of celestial space, are to be connected with trifling things about which the mathematicians are not wont to be consulted,-for who would consult them as to when he is to sit, when to walk abroad, when and on what he is to dine?

Let us hope that our faith in those young men is vindicated as I know it will be!

The colony referendum had passed it by a slim margin, which vindicated his position even if the "yeas' had outnumbered the "nays'.

Among the others vindicated by this unexpected climax was Security Officer Blaz, who clamped restraints on Lars's wrists with undisguised satisfaction.

Hoyle and Wickraman-singh’s theory has been vindicated in the Rukbat system.

Fandarel asked, feeling somewhat vindicated by the failure of all attempts.

Their honor was vindicated in the field of Tebeste, by the death of Solomon, and the total loss of his army.

Two years later Bideau was vindicated when Olympic legend Herb Elliott urged Australian Olympic hopefuls to get real jobs, to learn how to do it tough, on and off the track.

But when he so worshipped these same gods, and so vindicated their worship, as to say, in that same literary work of his, that he was afraid lest they should perish, not by an assault by enemies, but by the negligence of the citizens, and that from this ignominy they are being delivered by him, and are being laid up and preserved in the memory of the good by means of such books, with a zeal far more beneficial than that through which Metellus is declared to have rescued the sacred things of Vesta from the flames, and Aeneas to have rescued the Penates from the burning of Troy.

If Oscar wins and this whole cockeyed version of who he thinks he is is vindicated because that's what the law allows?

The ancient animosity of the Ramen toward the Bloodguard had been vindicated by the attitude of the Masters.

Since his instinctive gesture of solidarity, John took a proprietorial interest in Engelard, and wanted him safe, vindicated, and happy with his Sioned.

But I want that man found, and Engelard vindicated, and my father avenged, and I won’t rest, or let anyone else rest, until I get what I want.