Usually means: Proves right, justifies, or absolves.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. vindicates: Merriam-Webster
  2. vindicates: Collins English Dictionary
  3. vindicates: Vocabulary.com
  4. Vindicates, vindicates: Wordnik
  5. vindicates: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. vindicates: Wiktionary
  7. vindicates: Dictionary.com
  8. vindicates: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. vindicates: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. vindicates: Legal dictionary

(Note: See vindicate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (vindicate)

verb:  (transitive) To clear of an accusation, suspicion or criticism.
verb:  (transitive) To justify by providing evidence.
verb:  (transitive) To maintain or defend (a cause) against opposition.
verb:  (transitive) To be proven reasonable, correct, or justified.
verb:  (transitive) To provide justification for.
verb:  (transitive) To lay claim to; to assert a right to; to claim.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To liberate; to set free; to deliver.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To avenge; to punish.
▸ Also see vindicate


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