Word: exonerate
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To relieve (someone or something) of a load; to unburden (a load).
Of a body of water: to discharge or empty (itself).
To free from an obligation, responsibility or task.
To free from accusation or blame.
Freed from an obligation; freed from accusation or blame; acquitted, exonerated.
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