maintain, assert, defend, vindicate, justify mean to uphold as true, right, just, or reasonable. maintain stresses firmness of conviction.

to show something to have been right or true, or to show someone to be free from guilt or blame: The decision to ...

verb · to clear from guilt, accusation, blame, etc, as by evidence or argument · to provide justification for · to uphold, maintain, or defend (a cause, etc).

Vindicate means to justify, prove, or reinforce an idea — or to absolve from guilt. If your family thinks you hogged the last piece of pie on Thanksgiving, you ...

vindicate in American English · 1. to clear from criticism, blame, guilt, suspicion, etc.; uphold by evidence or argument · 2. to defend or maintain (a cause, ...

Jun 2, 2024 · The meaning of VINDICATION is an act of vindicating : the state of being vindicated; specifically : justification against denial or censure ...

: to show that (someone) should not be blamed for a crime, mistake, etc. : to show that (someone) is not guilty. They have evidence that will vindicate [= ...

Vindicated means "freed from any question of guilt." If people think you did something wrong, you dream of being vindicated, or found innocent.

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the fact of proving that someone is not guilty or is free from blame, after other people have blamed them: The man wrongly ...