English-Dutch translations for vindicate

• blaam zuiveren
• doen gelden
• opeisen
  Door met deze strategie te komen, kan de EU met recht haar plaats op het wereldtoneel opeisen. The EU can now vindicate its claim to a place on the world stage by brokering this strategy.
  We moeten de verloren eer opeisen - om een favoriete uitdrukking van de Duitse schrijver Heinrich Böll te gebruiken - van de komkommerproducenten. We must vindicate the lost honour - an expression much to the taste of the German author Heinrich Böll - of cucumber producers.
• rechtvaardigen
  Dan hebben we nu de kans om die grootspraak te rechtvaardigen. Well, here is our chance to vindicate that boast.
• revancheren
• verantwoorden
• verdedigen
• vrijpleiten
• vrijspreken

Definition of vindicate

• To clear of an accusation, suspicion or criticism
• To justify by providing evidence
• To maintain or defend against opposition
• To provide justification for
• To lay claim to; to assert a right to; to claim
• To avenge; to punish

Examples

• to vindicate someones honor
• to vindicate a right, claim or title
• to vindicate the rights of labor movement in developing countries
• The violent history of the suspect vindicated the use of force by the police
• a war to vindicate infidelity

Related words

• vindication
• vindicativeness
• rei vindicatio