Charge
Exonerate
Exonerate verb - To free from a charge of wrongdoing.
Usage example: the results of the DNA fingerprinting finally exonerated the man, but only after he had wasted 10 years of his life in prison
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Character Witness: Pip (and to a lesser extent, his mother Ann) acts as this to exonerate Dan of the arson charge at the climax.
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