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# acquitted

«acquitted» in Mova's school dictionary: **Performed or behaved in a certain way, as in acquitted…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (past form of acquit)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Performed or behaved in a certain way, as in acquitted themselves well. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/acquitted/#m1)

2) Judged not guilty in a court of law. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/acquitted/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in old stories, sons who prove themselves by their deeds, or a god or hero who is found innocent at a trial

### examples

- They acquitted themselves like brave sons. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/acquitted/#x1)
- The judge acquitted him, so he went free. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/acquitted/#x2)
- Ares was acquitted at the trial. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/acquitted/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «acquitted» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/acquitted/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.