adjudge
Americanverb (used with object)
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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
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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
Woakes almost had Smith without scoring, only for the third umpire to adjudge an edge had not carried to Joe Root at first slip.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 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
Therefore, to the king and crown do we adjudge dominion, with full right and jurisdiction, over the whole of Alsen.
From The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance by Ingemann, Bernhard Severin
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
Restore us those rights as we had them; as your Court adjudges them to be; just as our people have said they are.
From Robert Toombs Statesman, Speaker, Soldier, Sage by Stovall, Pleasant A.
Why, 'that the court adjudges the defendant, for his offences aforesaid, to be fined and imprisoned.'
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 by Various
Pushkin he adjudges a splendid poet, and one who has done honour to Holy Russia.
From Poor Folk by Hogarth, C. J.
In Stokes' next, Daryl Mitchell was adjudged to have edged behind on review, though the batter thought he hit his pad.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
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
When Marufa Akter was adjudged lbw next ball, Athapaththu had conjured the unthinkable, defending nine with a single run conceded in the over.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2025
West Coast adjudged it “a port enclosed and very good.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2025
The seriousness of Dad’s condition may be adjudged by the fact that he contented himself with a withering look.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
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
The hosts had appeals for a first-half penalty rejected, with the referee correctly adjudging Andrew Surman to have been fouled just outside the area.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2012
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 High Court instituted for the adjudging of ecclesiastical affairs was suppressed, and the Sovereign Pontiff was hitherto to be recognized as the superior judge in such matters.
From The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe by Cunningham, Francis A. (Francis Aloysius)
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