vindicate
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~ clear of accusation, blame, suspicion, or doubt with supporting proof; "You must vindicate yourself and fight this libel"
vindicate
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~ show to be right by providing justification or proof; "vindicate a claim"
vindicate
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~ maintain, uphold, or defend; "vindicate the rights of the citizens"
vindicated
— Adjective
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~ freed from any question of guilt; "is absolved from all blame"; "was now clear of the charge of cowardice"; "his official honor is vindicated"
vindication
— Noun
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~ the act of vindicating or defending against criticism or censure etc.; "friends provided a vindication of his position"
vindication
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~ the justification for some act or belief; "he offered a persuasive defense of the theory"
vindicator
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~ a person who argues to defend or justify some policy or institution; "an apologist for capital punishment"
vindicatory
— Adjective
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~ of or relating to or having the nature of retribution; "retributive justice demands an eye for an eye"
vindicatory
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~ given or inflicted in requital according to merits or deserts; "retributive justice"
vindicatory
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~ providing justification
vindictive
— Adjective
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~ disposed to seek revenge or intended for revenge; "more vindictive than jealous love"- Shakespeare; "punishments...essentially vindictive in their nature"- M.R.Cohen
vindictive
— Adjective
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~ showing malicious ill will and a desire to hurt; motivated by spite; "a despiteful fiend"; "a truly spiteful child"; "a vindictive man will look for occasions for resentment"
vindictively
— Adverb
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~ in a vindictive, revengeful manner; "he plotted vindictively against his former superiors"
vindictiveness
— Noun
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~ a malevolent desire for revenge
pumpkin vine
— Noun
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~ a coarse vine widely cultivated for its large pulpy round orange fruit with firm orange skin and numerous seeds; subspecies of Cucurbita pepo include the summer squashes and a few autumn squashes
quarter-vine
— Noun
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~ woody flowering vine of southern United States; stems show a cross in transverse section
railroad vine
— Noun
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~ a prostrate perennial of coastal sand dunes Florida to Texas
kudzu vine
— Noun
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~ fast-growing vine from eastern Asia having tuberous starchy roots and hairy trifoliate leaves and racemes of purple flowers followed by long hairy pods containing many seeds; grown for fodder and forage and root starch; widespread in the southern United States
lace-flower vine
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~ low-growing creeping perennial of Central America having deeply fringed white flowers; sometimes placed in genus Episcia
potato vine
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~ copiously branched vine of Brazil having deciduous leaves and white flowers tinged with blue