Crossword clues for vindicated
vindicated
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.]
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To lay claim to; to assert a right to; to claim. [R.]
Is thine alone the seed that strews the plain? The birds of heaven shall vindicate their grain.
--Pope. 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.
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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. To maintain, as a law or a cause, by overthrowing enemies.
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To liberate; to set free; to deliver. [Obs.]
I am confident he deserves much more That vindicates his country from a tyrant Than he that saves a citizen.
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To avenge; to punish; as, a war to vindicate or punish infidelity. [Obs.]
--Bacon.God is more powerful to exact subjection and to vindicate rebellion.
--Bp. Pearson.Syn: To assert; maintain; claim. See Assert.
Wiktionary
justified, avenged or cleared of blame v
(en-past of: vindicate)
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]
Wikipedia
"Vindicated" is a song by Dashboard Confessional released on the 2004 soundtrack for the film Spider-Man 2 as well as on Dashboard Confessional's 2006 album, Dusk and Summer, as a bonus track on some pressings and on deluxe edition versions. Played over the film's end credits, "Vindicated" is the theme for the film.
Vindicated is a 2008 book written by former baseball player José Canseco. This book, similar to his first, Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits & How Baseball Got Big, focuses mainly on steroids in baseball. Vindicated has made several headlines. Canseco also writes of the now infamous 1998 party at his home.
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
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.