acquit
[verb]
Synonyms:
- clear, discharge, free, liberate, release, vindicate
- behave, bear, comport, conduct, perform

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Antonyms: convict
Contrasted words: condemn, damn, doom, proscribe, sentence
Related Words: discharge, free, liberate, release, justify

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

ac‧quit /əˈkwɪt/ verb (past tense and past participle acquitted, present participle acquitting)
[Date: 1200-1300; Language: Old French; Origin: acquiter, from quite 'free of']

1. [transitive usually passive] to give a decision in a court of law that someone is not guilty of a crime:
All the defendants were acquitted.
acquit somebody of something
The judge directed the jury to acquit Phillips of the murder.

2. acquit yourself well/honourably to do something well, especially something difficult that you do for the first time in front of other people

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