(vindicates, vindicating, vindicated)
If a person or their decisions, actions, or ideas are vindicated, they are proved to be correct, after people have said that they were wrong. (FORMAL)
The director said he had been vindicated by the experts' report...
VERB: be V-ed
• vindication
He called the success a vindication of his party's free-market economic policy.
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