(v. t.) To discharge, as a claim or debt; to clear off; to pay off; to requite.
(v. t.) To pay for; to atone for.
(v. t.) To set free, release or discharge from an obligation, duty, liability, burden, or from an accusation or charge; -- now followed by of before the charge, formerly by from; as, the jury acquitted the prisoner; we acquit a man of evil intentions.
(v. t.) To clear one's self.
(v. t.) To bear or conduct one's self; to perform one's part; as, the soldier acquitted himself well in battle; the orator acquitted himself very poorly.
Example Sentences:
(1) He was, however, acquitted of criminal charges over this.
(2) Several top police commanders were acquitted, and Mubarak and his sons were found not guilty of corruption charges.
(3) An MRF sergeant was acquitted of attempted murder following a trial in 1973.
(4) She was then tried and acquitted on phone-hacking charges in 2014, leaving her to work out how to restart her career.
(5) 9 January 2012: Anwar is acquitted of sodomy charges.
(6) He was acquitted of assault by beating after a four-day trial in which his alleged victim, protester Nicola Fisher, declined to give evidence.
(7) After the murder he replaced Morgan at Southern Investigations to work alongside Jonathan Rees, who was tried for the murder and acquitted.
(8) While he was acquitted of rape, his remark that he took a shower after having sex with an HIV-positive woman to minimise the risk of infection caused fury.
(9) Francis Dixon, 38, from Stalybridge, was acquitted of the murder of David Short, the attempted murder of Hark and causing an explosion with a hand grenade.
(10) Colonel Jorge Mendonca was acquitted of failing to ensure that his men did not mistreat prisoners who were being held at a British detention centre in Basra, southern Iraq .
(11) In 2005 Mallah was acquitted of two terrorism offences but pleaded guilty to threatening to kill Asio officials.
(12) It’s about why this government chose to not upgrade Don Dale and to throw children in a derelict male prison.” Lawrence said the problems of juveniles in NT prisons had to be addressed “by a system that’s properly resourced, providing nothing less than best practice which is acquitted by fully qualified and professionally trained staff, creating appropriate behavioural programs and education for adolescent offenders of various types and backgrounds”.
(13) The 58-year-old, who recently served a four-month ban by the Football League for failing to pay tax on a yacht, was acquitted of customs offences on the Range Rover, which had been imported from the United States.
(14) Two recent high-profile cases have made the headlines: a doctor accused of administering drugs that hastened the deaths of seven elderly patients was acquitted, and France's high court authorised doctors to stop treating and feeding a young man who had been in a vegetative state on life support for six years.
(15) An inquest last year ruled that Harwood unlawfully killed him, but a trial jury acquitted the officer of manslaughter in July.
(16) If the various Ivan Milat murders had been tried individually he would almost certainly have been acquitted.
(17) Two years ago, Olmert was acquitted of separate corruption charges relating to his dealings with a US businessman, which had forced his resignation as prime minister in 2008.
(18) However, Azmi and others said that a series of terrorist cases in recent years in which Muslims had been suspected, investigated and often incarcerated for long periods before being acquitted had damaged trust in the police and, more broadly, the government.
(19) • This clarification was posted on 30 March 2011: An editing error in the footnote above wrongly suggested that all six men convicted, and later acquitted on appeal, of the Birmingham pub bombings were represented by Gareth Peirce.
(20) He directed them to acquit Payne of manslaughter and of intending to pervert the course of justice.
Fulfill
Definition:
(v. t.) To fill up; to make full or complete.
(v. t.) To accomplish or carry into effect, as an intention, promise, or prophecy, a desire, prayer, or requirement, etc.; to complete by performance; to answer the requisitions of; to bring to pass, as a purpose or design; to effectuate.
Example Sentences:
(1) The high participation percentage also shows that the prerequisite of screening, namely, a positive attitude on the part of the population, was as well fulfilled in the present project.
(2) Six cases of chronic eosinophilic pneumonia fulfilled the following criteria: 1) more than a two-month history of symptoms prior to diagnosis, 2) a prolonged clinical course and 3) recurrence.
(3) To be used as a model in dental and medical research, an animal must fulfil experimental needs and information on the composition and variation of its oral flora must be available.
(4) The UN should "be able to meet a much higher standard in fulfilling its protection and humanitarian responsibilities", it says.
(5) The microbiologic assay method, with its rapid, simple, and inexpensive procedures, fulfills such a requirement.
(6) Faculty and students would be communicating and hopefully fulfilling the needs of and responsibilities to each other.
(7) Of 30 patients, 18 fulfilled the criteria (9 experimental; 9 controls).
(8) This search represents movement beyond the significance of infantile wish-fulfillment aspects of religiosity toward the broader domain of ego functioning and quality of object relations.
(9) Besides, it is possible to consider that "central" benzodiazepine receptors are not homogeneous, and are presented by two populations which fulfil different physiological role.
(10) Here the miracle of the Lohans' baby was divinely ordained and fulfilled the entitlement of every woman to have a child.
(11) The Scottish National party will campaign confidently for independence, not just as an end in itself but as the means by which the people of Scotland can best fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations; by which the Scottish economy can grow more strongly and sustainably; and by which Scotland can take its rightful place as a responsible member of the world community.
(12) Is there not enough material available, can neck-, breast-or forehead flaps cover the defect, although they do not fulfill the demands for a satisfactory restoration of specific function.
(13) It was listening to the then state legislator Obama at the 2004 Democratic convention in Boston when he spoke about America not being red or blue but a place where "you don't have to be rich in order to fulfil your potential".
(14) Asked by Marr if he knew if Ashcroft paid tax in this country, Hague said:" I'm sure he fulfils the obligations that were imposed on him at the time he became …" Marr: "Have you asked him?"
(15) Two conditions must be fulfilled: a lesion of a non collapsible vein; and a pressure gradient from outside to inside the vein, as occurs for instance during puncture of a large vein in a hypovolemic patient.
(16) Despite fulfilling a boyhood wish to play for Milan when he returned to Italy, the striker admitted he erred in taking his career back to Serie A, having had a controversial spell at Internazionale before City recruited him for £17.5m in August 2010.
(17) Data are presented on 78 patients who fulfill the diagnostic criteria for neurofibromatosis-1.
(18) From this pool of patients 60 consecutively were selected who did fulfill the selected criteria.
(19) Criteria for randomization were fulfilled in 494 of 861 patients with Dukes' B and C tumors, when the trial was closed.
(20) The hypothalamus fulfills multiple functions, e.g., integration of food and water ingestion, various forms of social behavior and physiological neuroendocrine activities.