Vindicate

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–verb (used with object) 

1. to clear, 

as from an accusation, imputation (歸罪), suspicion, or the like: 



to vindicate someone's [honor].  



2. to afford justification for; justify: Subsequent events vindicated [his policy]. 

3. to uphold or justify by argument or evidence: to vindicate a [claim]. 

4. to assert, maintain, or defend (a right, cause, etc.) against opposition. 

5. to claim for oneself or another. 

6. Roman and Civil Law. to regain possession, under claim of title of property through legal procedure, or to assert one's right to possession. 

7. to get revenge for; avenge. 

8. Obsolete. to deliver from; liberate. 

9. Obsolete. to punish.  



—Synonyms 

1. exonerate. (使免受指控) 3, 4. support.





　

Many viewers who felt let down by The Dreamers' treatment of the events of '68 



may feel vindicated by this work. 



Cinematographically, Philippe Garrel [employs] [gritty, grainy] black-and-white to impart a docudrama quality 



to the motion picture (and thus, the suggestion of the political protests actually transpiring [as] the film [unspools]).





vindictive nemesis

virulent

inextricable inexorably inexorable [truth], inexorable [justice]. (unyielding!!!)

exorbitant

Dingy



indict (of a grand jury) to bring a formal accusation against

recrimination countercharge

refute to prove to be erroneous, rebut & confute ...I refute the accusation that

castigate to reprimand severely, punish ...castigating him as a "narcissistic" part of the human anatomy

Castigate