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acquitted
[ uh-kwit-id ]
adjective
- having been declared not guilty of a crime:
The mayor extended condolences to the victim’s family, but also expressed empathy for the acquitted officers.
noun
- Usually the acquitted. a person or persons who have been declared not guilty of a crime:
None of the acquitted received any kind of compensation or redress.
verb
- the simple past tense and past participle of acquit ( def ).
Other 51Թ Forms
- ܲ··ܾ·ٱ adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of acquitted1
Example Sentences
While in prison for other offences, Dunlop boasted to a prison guard about getting away with the killing, but he could not be prosecuted again for the same crime after being acquitted twice.
The late Aretha Franklin headlined in 1999 when the dinner landed shortly after Bill Clinton was acquitted in the Senate of impeachment charges against him.
A series of nine criminal cases were launched against him in Punjab and in Delhi, but last month he was acquitted in the first of those.
Fourteen people were acquitted and freed, with the court finding they had no connection to the attack.
Sweeney was acquitted of other charges, including attempting to defeat the ends of justice.
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