What are the opposite words for incriminate?
To incriminate someone means to accuse them of a crime or wrongdoing. The opposite of incriminate would be to exonerate, which means to clear someone of blame or suspicion. Other antonyms for incriminate include absolve, vindicate, and exculpate, which all have similar meanings of removing guilt or responsibility from someone. Another antonym for incriminate could be acquit, which means to find someone not guilty in a court of law. On the other hand, synonyms for incriminate include implicate, blame, accuse, and convict, all of which suggest that someone is at fault for something.
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- acquit
- forgive
- vindicate
- purify
- dispense
- exonerate
- pardon
- release
- absolve
- exculpate
- justify
- purge
- remit
- free from responsibility, duty
- announce removal of blame
- clear
- liberate; free from uncertainty
- exempt from responsibility
- excuse, clear of responsibility or blame
- legitimize, substantiate
- rid of; clean out
- free; make clean
- stop, postpone
- prove one's innocence
- Other relevant words
- Other antonyms
- acquit
- forgive
- vindicate
-
purify
- aerify,
- deterge,
- edulcorate,
- lustrate,
- rarified,
- rarify,
- Deterged,
- Deterging,
- Elutriated,
- Elutriating,
- aerifying,
- aerified,
- aerifies,
- de contaminate,
- de contaminated,
- de contaminates,
- de contaminating,
- de odorize,
- de odorized,
- de odorizes,
- de odorizing,
- de-contaminate,
- de-contaminated,
- de-contaminates,
- de-contaminating,
- de-odorize,
- de-odorized,
- de-odorizes,
- de-odorizing,
- deterges,
- dis infect,
- dis infected,
- dis infecting,
- dis infects,
- dis-infect,
- dis-infected,
- dis-infecting,
- dis-infects,
- edulcorates,
- elutriates,
- rarifies,
- rarifying,
- re deem,
- re deemed,
- re deeming,
- re fine,
- re fined,
- re fines,
- re-deem,
- re-deeming,
- re-deems,
- re-fine,
- re-fines,
- re-fining.
- dispense
- exonerate
-
pardon
- buried hatchet,
- buried the hatchet,
- buries hatchet,
- buries the hatchet,
- bury hatchet,
- burying hatchet,
- burying the hatchet,
- gave absolution,
- give absolution,
- giving absolution,
- grant amnesty,
- granting amnesty,
- over look,
- over looked,
- over looks,
- over-look,
- over-looking,
- over-looks,
- suspend charges,
- suspended charges,
- suspends charges.
-
release
- give out,
- open up,
- unchain,
- unchained,
- unshackled,
- Unfetter,
- Unshackle,
- unfettering,
- unchains,
- unfetters,
- unshackles,
- turn loose,
- cast loose,
- casting loose,
- casts loose,
- dis engage,
- dis engaged,
- dis engages,
- dis engaging,
- dis-engage,
- dis-engaged,
- dis-engages,
- dis-engaging,
- let steam,
- lets off steam,
- lets steam,
- letted off steam,
- letted steam,
- letting off steam,
- letting steam,
- opened up,
- opening up,
- opens up,
- re lease,
- re leases,
- re-lease,
- re-leased,
- re-leases,
- set at large,
- set loose,
- sets at large,
- sets large,
- sets loose,
- setting at large,
- setting large,
- setting loose,
- sur rendered,
- sur rendering,
- sur renders,
- sur-render,
- sur-rendered,
- sur-rendering,
- sur-renders,
- taking out,
- took out,
- turned loose,
- turns loose,
- un bind,
- un binds,
- un bound,
- un chain,
- un chained,
- un chaining,
- un did,
- un does,
- un doing,
- un done,
- un fasten,
- un fastened,
- un fastening,
- un fastens,
- un fetter,
- un fettered,
- un fettering,
- un fetters,
- un leash,
- un leashed,
- un leashes,
- un loose,
- un loosed,
- un looses,
- un loosing,
- un shackle,
- un shackled,
- un shackles,
- un shackling,
- un tied,
- un tying,
- un-bind,
- un-binds,
- un-bound,
- un-chain,
- un-chaining,
- un-chains,
- un-did,
- un-does,
- un-doing,
- un-fasten,
- un-fastened,
- un-fetter,
- un-fettered,
- un-fettering,
- un-fetters,
- un-leashed,
- un-leashes,
- un-leashing,
- un-loose,
- un-loosed,
- un-looses,
- un-loosing,
- un-shackling,
- un-tied,
- un-tying.
-
absolve
- lifeboat,
- release,
- releasing,
- set free,
- whitewashed,
- wink at,
- Pardoned,
- lifeboats,
- setting free,
- sets free,
- blink at,
- winked at,
- blinked at,
- blinking at,
- blinks at,
- dis charge,
- dis charged,
- dis charges,
- dis charging,
- dis-charge,
- dis-charged,
- dis-charges,
- dis-charging,
- go easy on,
- goes easy on,
- going easy on,
- let easy,
- let hook,
- let off easy,
- let off the hook,
- let the hook,
- let up on,
- let upon,
- lets easy,
- lets hook,
- lets off easy,
- lets off hook,
- lets off the hook,
- lets the hook,
- lets up on,
- lets upon,
- letted easy,
- letted hook,
- letted off easy,
- letted off hook,
- letted off the hook,
- letted the hook,
- letted up on,
- letted upon,
- letting easy,
- letting hook,
- letting off easy,
- letting off hook,
- letting off the hook,
- letting the hook,
- letting up on,
- letting upon,
- lifeboated,
- lifeboating,
- re leasing,
- re lieve,
- re-leasing,
- re-lieve,
- went easy on,
- winking at,
- winks at,
- wipe it off,
- wipe the slate clean,
- wiped it off,
- wiped off,
- wiped slate clean,
- wiped the slate clean,
- wipes it off,
- wipes off,
- wipes slate clean,
- wipes the slate clean,
- wiping it off,
- wiping off,
- wiping slate clean,
- wiping the slate clean.
- exculpate
-
justify
- make good,
- alibiing,
- stand up for,
- apologize for,
- do justice to,
- alibied,
- am answerable for,
- apologized for,
- apologizes for,
- apologizing for,
- are answerable for,
- argue for,
- argued for,
- argues for,
- art answerable for,
- be answerable for,
- being answerable for,
- cop plea,
- de fend,
- de fended,
- de fending,
- de fends,
- de-fend,
- de-fended,
- de-fending,
- de-fends,
- did justice to,
- didst justice to,
- does justice to,
- doest justice to,
- doeth justice to,
- doing justice to,
- doth justice to,
- is answerable for,
- made allowances,
- make allowances,
- makes allowances,
- makes good,
- making allowances,
- making good,
- re butted,
- re butting,
- re-butted,
- re-butting,
- show cause,
- showing cause,
- shows cause,
- spake favor,
- spake in favor,
- speak favor,
- speak in favor,
- speaking favor,
- speaking in favor,
- speaks favor,
- speaks in favor,
- spoke favor,
- spoke in favor,
- standing up for,
- stood up for,
- up held,
- up hold,
- up holding,
- up holds,
- up-held,
- up-hold,
- up-holding,
- up-holds,
- was answerable for,
- wast answerable for,
- were answerable for,
- wert answerable for.
-
purge
- rout out,
- Depurate,
- Depurated,
- Depurating,
- shake out,
- depurates,
- dis abuse,
- dis abused,
- dis abuses,
- dis abusing,
- dis-abuse,
- dis-abused,
- dis-abuses,
- dis-abusing,
- ex crete,
- ex cretes,
- ex terminate,
- ex terminated,
- ex terminates,
- ex terminating,
- ex-crete,
- ex-cretes,
- ex-terminate,
- ex-terminated,
- ex-terminates,
- ex-terminating,
- pre vent,
- pre venting,
- pre vents,
- pre-vent,
- pre-vented,
- pre-venting,
- pre-vents,
- re move,
- re moved,
- re moving,
- re-move,
- re-moves,
- re-moving,
- routed out,
- routs out,
- shakes out,
- shaking out,
- shook out,
- sweeping out,
- sweeps out,
- swept out,
- un load,
- un loaded,
- un loading,
- un loads,
- un-load,
- un-loads,
- wipe off map,
- wiped map,
- wiped off map,
- wipes map,
- wipes off map,
- wiping map,
- wiping off map.
-
remit
- ease up,
- intermit,
- prorogue,
- Intermitted,
- Intermitting,
- Prorogued,
- Proroguing,
- prorogues,
- intermits,
- de crease,
- de creased,
- de creases,
- de creasing,
- de lay,
- de laying,
- de lays,
- de-crease,
- de-creased,
- de-creases,
- de-creasing,
- de-lay,
- de-laying,
- de-lays,
- eased up,
- eases up,
- easing up,
- falls away,
- fell away,
- pro rogue,
- pro rogues,
- pro roguing,
- pro-rogued,
- pro-rogues,
- pro-roguing,
- re duce,
- re duces,
- re lax,
- re peal,
- re pealed,
- re pealing,
- re peals,
- re spite,
- re spited,
- re spites,
- re-duce,
- re-duces,
- re-lax,
- re-pealed,
- re-peals,
- re-spites,
- re-spiting.
- free from responsibility, duty
- announce removal of blame
- clear
- liberate; free from uncertainty
- exempt from responsibility
- excuse, clear of responsibility or blame
- legitimize, substantiate
- rid of; clean out
- free; make clean
- stop, postpone
- prove one's innocence
- Other relevant words
- Other antonyms
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unweaved
- Antonyms:
- put together, twist, tangle.
