vindicate
English
verb
Definitions
- (transitive) To clear of an accusation, suspicion or criticism.
- (transitive) To justify by providing evidence.
- (transitive) To maintain or defend (a cause) against opposition.
- (transitive) To provide justification for.
- (transitive) To lay claim to; to assert a right to; to claim.
- (transitive) To liberate; to set free; to deliver.
- (transitive) To avenge; to punish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin vindicātus root from Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁- (chase, pursue, suppress, persecute, crave, hunt, reach towards, seek).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*weyh₁-
Gloss
chase, pursue, suppress, persecute, crave, hunt, reach towards, seek
Concept
Semantic Field
Motion
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- revindicate English
- vindicatest English
- vindicateth English
- vindicator English
- vindicatorily English
- vindicatory English
- vindicatress English
- vaino Finnish
- Vienna Latin
- venor Latin
- vim Latin
- vindex Latin
- vindico Latin
- vindicātus Latin
- vindicō, vindicāre Latin
- vis Latin
- vendicato Italian
- οἶμος Ancient Greek
- ἴφιος Ancient Greek
- *-ós Proto-Indo-European
- *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European
- *weh₁y- Proto-Indo-European
- *wenh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- *weydʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *weyh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- *wiHrós, wih₁rós Proto-Indo-European
- *woyh₁-éh₂-ti Proto-Indo-European
- *wéyh₁s Proto-Indo-European
- *waiþō Proto-Germanic
- *stъrviti Proto-Slavic
- *vojinъ Proto-Slavic
- vertu Old French
- geweide Middle High German
- stërvis Albanian