to commute

Examples

• All

• the Board of Review Is aware of your record here and Is prepared to commute your sentence from life

  Levity (2003)

• Many death row inmates have had their sentences commuted and removed from death row.

  Blog text (24)

• I want you to commute my sentence.

  Blackhat (2015)

• Then I could have had it commuted to life.

  Irma la Douce (1963)

• As Lord High Judge of this court, I hereby commute the death sentence.

  Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return (2014)

• Maybe we get the sentence commuted to life.

  Return to Sender (2004)

• And that recommendation was accepted by the governor and his sentence was commuted to life in prison.

  YaleCourses

• At the last minute my sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.

  Closer to the Moon (2014)

• Didn't he just refuse to commute your sentence?

  Whispers in the Dark (1992)

• We are in the process of requesting that Governor Weld commute her sentence.

  Fiction book (2000)

Synonyms

R

to reduce

vsto commute

162 2.1

To make something weaker or in a worse state

applies only when a penalty is made less severe by official authority

M

to modify

vsto commute

66 3.5

Make something less strong or harsh

lessens a penalty officially by decision of the authorities

Antonyms

P

to penalize

• US

60 5.5

Punish someone or make them suffer a loss for breaking a rule

How Reduced

to pardon

• Formal

92 3.9

to commute

• Formal

23 7.6

to reduce

162 2.1

Surface Forms

Etymology