ADJUDGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does adjudge mean? 

• ADJUDGE (verb)
  The verb ADJUDGE has 1 sense:

1. declare to be

  Familiarity information: ADJUDGE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADJUDGE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they adjudge    ... he / she / it adjudges   
Past simple: adjudged   
Past participle: adjudged   
-ing form: adjudging   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Declare to be

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

adjudge; declare; hold

Context example:

judge held that the defendant was innocent

Hypernyms (to "adjudge" is one way to...):

evaluate; judge; pass judgment (form a critical opinion of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "adjudge"):

acknowledge; admit (declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of)

superannuate (declare to be obsolete)

bastardise; bastardize (declare a child to be illegitimate)

certify (declare legally insane)

call (declare in the capacity of an umpire or referee)

beatify (declare (a dead person) to be blessed; the first step of achieving sainthood)

canonise; canonize; saint (declare (a dead person) to be a saint)

judge; label; pronounce (pronounce judgment on)

cancel; strike down (declare null and void; make ineffective)

formalise; formalize (make formal or official)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s something Adjective/Noun
Somebody ----s somebody something