Exonerate
Exonerate , transitive verb
[Latin exoneratus, past participle of exonerare to free from a burden; ex out, from onerare to load, onus load. See Onerous.]
1.
To unload; to disburden; to discharge. [Obsolete]
All exonerate themselves into one common duct.
2.
To relieve, in a moral sense, as of a charge, obligation, or load of blame resting on one; to clear of something that lies upon oppresses one, as an accusation or imputation; as, to exonerate one's self from blame, or from the charge of avarice. — Burke
3.
To discharge from duty or obligation, as a bail.