To declare or find innocent or not guilty.
Followed by of (and formerly by from): to discharge, release, or set free from a burden, duty, liability, or obligation, or from an accusation or charge.
To discharge (for example, a claim or debt); to clear off, to pay off; to fulfil.
To bear or conduct oneself; to perform one's part.
To clear oneself.
to quote; to repeat, as a passage from a book, or the words of another.
to list the source(s) from which one took information, words or literary or verbal context.
to summon officially or authoritatively to appear in court.
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