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All acquit antonyms

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verb acquit

  • accuse — If you accuse someone of doing something wrong or dishonest, you say or tell them that you believe that they did it.
  • blame — If you blame a person or thing for something bad, you believe or say that they are responsible for it or that they caused it.
  • convict — If someone is convicted of a crime, they are found guilty of that crime in a law court.
  • punish — to subject to pain, loss, confinement, death, etc., as a penalty for some offense, transgression, or fault: to punish a criminal.
  • sentence — Grammar. a grammatical unit of one or more words that expresses an independent statement, question, request, command, exclamation, etc., and that typically has a subject as well as a predicate, as in John is here. or Is John here? In print or writing, a sentence typically begins with a capital letter and ends with appropriate punctuation; in speech it displays recognizable, communicative intonation patterns and is often marked by preceding and following pauses.
  • condemn — If you condemn something, you say that it is very bad and unacceptable.
  • incriminate — to accuse of or present proof of a crime or fault: He incriminated both men to the grand jury.
  • incarcerate — to imprison; confine.
  • limit — the final, utmost, or furthest boundary or point as to extent, amount, continuance, procedure, etc.: the limit of his experience; the limit of vision.
  • restrain — to hold back from action; keep in check or under control; repress: to restrain one's temper.
  • censure — If you censure someone for something that they have done, you tell them that you strongly disapprove of it.
  • damn — Damn, damn it, and dammit are used by some people to express anger or impatience.
  • denounce — If you denounce a person or an action, you criticize them severely and publicly because you feel strongly that they are wrong or evil.
  • charge — If you charge someone an amount of money, you ask them to pay that amount for something that you have sold to them or done for them.
  • hold — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
  • keep — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
  • doom — fate or destiny, especially adverse fate; unavoidable ill fortune: In exile and poverty, he met his doom.
  • fail — to fall short of success or achievement in something expected, attempted, desired, or approved: The experiment failed because of poor planning.
  • halt — to falter, as in speech, reasoning, etc.; be hesitant; stumble.
  • stop — to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
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