vindicate

1. V-T 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. 證明是正確的[正式]

The director said he had been vindicated by the experts' report. 主任說專家們的報(bào)告證明他是正確的。

2. vindicationN-UNCOUNT 證明正確[also 'a' N, usu N 'of' n]

He called the success a vindication of his party's free-market economic policy. 他稱這次成功證明了他的政黨的自由市場(chǎng)經(jīng)濟(jì)政策是正確的。