(~s, vindicating, ~d)
If a person or their decisions, actions, or ideas are ~d, they are proved to be correct, after people have said that they were wrong. (FORMAL)
The director said he had been ~d 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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