vindicate

Other forms of vindicate

past tense

vindicated·

present participle

vindicating·

third person

vindicates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about vindicate

What does vindicate mean?

vindicate means "show to be right by providing justification or proof". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in vindicate?

vindicate has 3 syllables: vin-di-cate. The stress falls on "vin". In IPA it is /ˈvɪndəkeɪt/.

What is another word for vindicate?

Close synonyms include justify. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is vindicate a common word?

vindicate is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.