adjudge
Americanverb (used with object)
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adjudges,
present (3rd person singular)
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adjudged,
past participle, past
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adjudging
present participle
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to declare or pronounce formally; decree.
The will was adjudged void.
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to award or assign judicially.
The prize was adjudged to him.
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to decide by a judicial opinion or sentence.
to adjudge a case.
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to sentence or condemn.
He was adjudged to die.
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to deem; consider; think.
It was adjudged wise to avoid war.
verb
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to pronounce formally; declare
he was adjudged the winner
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to determine judicially; judge
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to order or pronounce by law; decree
he was adjudged bankrupt
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to award (costs, damages, etc)
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archaic to sentence or condemn
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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adjudgesimple
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adjudgessimple
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have adjudgedperfect
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has adjudgedperfect
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am adjudgingprogressive
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are adjudgingprogressive
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is adjudgingprogressive
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have been adjudgingperfect progressive
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has been adjudgingperfect progressive
Past
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adjudgedsimple
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had adjudgedperfect
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was adjudgingprogressive
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were adjudgingprogressive
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had been adjudgingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of adjudge
1325–75; Middle English ajugen < Middle French ajug ( i ) er < Latin adjūdicāre. See adjudicate
Example Sentences
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But as the original on-field decision was to adjudge Diaz offside, the response of “check complete” appeared to confirm the offside decision was correct.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 2, 2023
“Federal courts are authorized ‘to adjudge the legal rights of litigants in actual controversies,’ not hurt feelings,” wrote Justice Thomas.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 6, 2023
Only true believers will adjudge “Western Stars” to be one of the Boss’s great ones.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 21, 2019
The UK, Dutch and other governments have also used distanced, networked processes to adjudge the authenticity of asylum seekers’ claims.
From Salon ● Nov. 9, 2014
To adjudge; to try and determine, as a court; to settle by judicial decree.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
Marriner adjudges that Distin has fouled him, but again it looked harsh.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 28, 2012
But the novel most frequently mentioned is War and Peace, which one of three main protagonists, Patty, adjudges "the best book I've ever read".
From The Guardian ● Sep. 17, 2010
This they disclaimed, and after requesting to be convinced upon the Scriptures, added, “Will the king adjudge the faith as he adjudges moveables and lands?”
From The Highlands of Ethiopia by William Cornwallis Harris
It simply adjudges the instrument to be a will legally executed by one competent to make it and who had a home or property within the territorial jurisdiction of the court.
From The American Judiciary by Simeon E. Baldwin, LLD
All efforts which we make through reason are nothing but efforts to understand, and the mind, in so far as it uses reason, adjudges nothing as profitable to itself excepting that which conduces to understanding.
From The Philosophy of Spinoza by Joseph Ratner
Davis was released in 1976 when his conviction was adjudged to be unsafe, and it was overturned entirely on appeal in 2011.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
Ellis Genge was dispatched to the sin-bin seat of shame in Paris, adjudged to have cynically dragged down a France driving maul that was destined for the line.
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2026
Smith first survived when the technology adjudged a Cummins bouncer that ended at first slip came off his helmet, rather than his glove.
From BBC ● Dec. 18, 2025
Four minutes later the Danes were down to 10 men when Rasmus Kristensen was harshly handed a second booking after being adjudged to have brought down John McGinn.
From Barron's ● Nov. 18, 2025
Failing that, they would be adjudged traitors, their lands and titles forfeit to the throne.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
But two minutes later Las Blancas were awarded a penalty, with Danish referee Frida Klarlund adjudging Jessie Fleming to have fouled Athenea del Castillo in the penalty area.
From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2023
After reviewing the incident on the pitchside monitor, referee Marco Di Bello revoked his decision after adjudging there had been a foul on Sepe just before.
From Seattle Times ● May 8, 2022
Neil Swarbrick pointed to the spot after adjudging the challenge to be in the box, with the Wales international dusting himself off to send Schwarzer the wrong way.
From The Guardian ● May 4, 2013
Dr. Badawi hopes that naysayers will attend the planned conferences, and read the new journal that he is helping to found, before adjudging that the scholarship disrespects the Koran.
From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 2012
The adjudging of the arms of Achilles takes place, and Odysseus, by the contriving of Athena, gains them.
From Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hugh G. (Hugh Gerard) Evelyn-White
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