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acquit as in: she was acquitted
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It took the jury only 30 minutes to acquit her of the murder charge.
acquit = officially find "not guilty"
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She was acquitted of all charges.acquitted = officially found "not guilty"
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Despite acquittal on criminal charges, controversy remains and civil charges may be pending.acquittal = an official finding of "not guilty"
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Then he said I was acquitted and the whole case was closed. (source)acquitted = officially found "not guilty"
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Most people don't have to be acquitted of murder to be accepted. (source)acquitted = officially found "not guilty"
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"You think they'll acquit him that fast?" asked Jem. (source)acquit = officially declare "not guilty"
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Related words: absolution , acquittal, mercy. (source)acquittal = word that means official finding of "not guilty"
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"You mean he's more frightened of acquitting than convicting, because if he acquits he'll lose his job," said Lesley with a clever little laugh. (source)acquitting = officially finding "not guilty"
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The inaugural edition of the Review displayed a banner headline: jury acquits seattle's gill.† (source)acquits = officially finds "not guilty"
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So are ninety-nine percent of my clients, and it's never stopped me from getting acquittals before. (source)acquittals = official findings of "not guilty"
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I knew I'd be acquitted. (source)acquitted = officially found "not guilty"
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A jury's not made up of battered women, but they've been known to acquit them before. (source)
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Frankly, I don't see how we can vote for acquittal. (source)acquittal = an official finding of "not guilty"
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You couldn't bounce any jury into acquitting him. (source)acquitting = officially finding "not guilty"
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acquit as in: she acquitted herself well
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Although they did not win, the team acquitted itself well and we were proud to have them represent us.
acquitted = handled (itself in a specified way)
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She acquitted herself well at the interview.acquitted = handled (oneself in a specified way)
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Yet he acquitted himself well, unhorsing Horas Redwyne in his first joust and one of the Freys in his second. (source)acquitted = handled (conducted)
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I had never before seen a centaur hang hooves on a tubular crest, but Chiron acquitted himself well. (source)acquitted = handled (conducted or behaved)
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We just finished that ASW exercise south of Bermuda, and the Brits acquitted themselves well. (source)acquitted = handled (conducted)
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It was as if she wanted something from him, as if she wanted him to prove …. what, he knew not, but he was determined to acquit himself as well as he could. (source)acquit = handle (conduct or behave)
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Maia especially was acquitting herself well. (source)acquitting = handling (conducting or behaving)
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I have never seen Fanny dance since she was a little girl; but I trust we shall both think she acquits herself like a gentlewoman when we do see her, which, perhaps, we may have an opportunity of doing ere long. (source)acquits = handles (conducts or behaves)
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He had begun his career as the assistant prosecutor in Uppsala, until he was recruited as an investigator by the Ministry of Justice, where he worked on bringing Swedish law into accord with that of the EU, and he acquitted himself so well that for a time he was appointed division chief. (source)acquitted = handled (conducted or behaved)
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She was not abnormally deficient, and she mustered learning enough to acquit herself respectably in conversation with her contemporaries, among whom it must be avowed, however, that she occupied a secondary place. (source)acquit = handle (conduct or behave)
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...but her husband's way of commenting on the strangely impressive objects around them had begun to affect her with a sort of mental shiver: he had perhaps the best intention of acquitting himself worthily, but only of acquitting himself. (source)acquitting = handling (conducting or behaving)
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He's managed to get through his little talk to the Tuesday group, and feels he's acquitted himself well enough. (source)acquitted = handled (conducted or behaved)
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For such reasons, I was very glad when ten o'clock came and we started for Miss Havisham's; though I was not at all at my ease regarding the manner in which I should acquit myself under that lady's roof. (source)acquit = handle (conduct or behave)
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After all that I said to her as we came along, I thought she would have behaved better; I told her how much might depend upon her acquitting herself well at first. (source)acquitting = handling (in the specified way)
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rare meaning
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Fanny's disposition was such that she could never even think of her aunt Norris in the meagreness and cheerlessness of her own small house, without reproaching herself for some little want of attention to her when they had been last together; much less could her feelings acquit her of having done and said and thought everything by William that was due to him for a whole fortnight. (source)acquit = believe to have done a duty properly
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I cannot acquit him of that duty; nor could I think well of the man who should omit an occasion of testifying his respect towards anybody connected with the family. (source)acquit = release
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Mr. Crawford would have fully acquitted her conduct in refusing him; but this, though most material to herself, would be poor consolation to Sir Thomas. (source)acquitted = performed a responsibility adequately
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