exonerate.
To relieve (someone or something) of a load; to unburden (a load).
Meaning & usage
To relieve (someone or something) of a load; to unburden (a load).
Of a body of water: to discharge or empty (itself).
To free (someone) from an obligation, responsibility or task.
To free (someone) from accusation or blame.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English exoneraten (attested in past participle exonerated), from Latin exonerātus, past perfect participle of exonerō (“to discharge, unload; to exonerate”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Exonerō is from ex- (“out, from”) + onerō (“to burden, lade; to load”) further from onus (oner-) (“a burden, load”) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃énh₂os (“burden, load”), from *h₃enh₂- (“to charge, onerate”). Compare French exonérer.
Freed from an obligation; freed from accusation or blame; acquitted, exonerated.
Where this word comes from
Learned borrowing from Latin exonerātus (more at etymology 1), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
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