acquitted
- adjective
- /əˈkwɪtɪd/
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absuelto
- After a lengthy trial, he was finally acquitted of all charges and felt relieved.
In these trials, you were acquitted, found not guilty and not liable.
- In these trials, you were acquitted, found not guilty and not liable.
- Callum Hudson Adoy was recently accused of it and then acquitted of it.
- And we did, and that blew the argument against Blum and he was acquitted.
- You know, right now if Trump was acquitted.
- But it was deemed by a court of law that this happened whilst he was sleepwalking and he was actually acquitted.
- Because now that I'm acquitted, I'm going to violate that oath in ways that would make my old friend Jeffrey Epstein puke into a dumpster.
- After three months, dad gets acquitted after eight months.
- Atel, by the way, was like the players acquitted by the grand jury.
- I was acquitted for the cocaine.
- No D, no D, no D, no D Trump got acquitted.
- But the analogy is that the acquitted conduct cannot be the tail wagging the dog, right?
- I remember I was supposed to interview with Tom Brokaw at OJ Simpson after he was acquitted.
- The reaction I got off people over over since it's been on is better than the time when I got acquitted for the murder.
Examples
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And he is in fact acquitted of the charge.
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But the analogy is that the acquitted conduct cannot be the tail wagging the dog, right?
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The jury announced that she was acquitted of the crime she was accused of committing.
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Many cheered when their friend was acquitted in court and cleared of any wrongdoing.
Synonyms
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2.2
Not guilty of a crime or wrongdoing
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3.2
A court or jury finds someone did not commit the crime they were charged with
Free from blame or officially declared not guilty
Freed from blame when proof shows they did not do the crime
No longer blamed for a crime or fault
Shown by facts to be right or not at fault
How Cleared
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Acquitted comes from an old idea of making someone ac- 'to' + quiet 'calm' or 'at rest'. So when a court acquits someone, it 'sets them free' from the charges and lets them be 'at peace'.