Sentence - English meaning

verb

Express complete disapproval of; censure.

Usage examples:

Most leaders roundly condemned the attack

verb

To criticize something or someone strongly, usually for moral reasons

Usage examples:

The movie was condemned for glorifying violence., those who remember the past are not condemned to …

verb

Declare (someone) to be guilty of a criminal offence by the verdict of a jury or the decision of a judge in a court of law.

Usage examples:

The theives were convicted of the robbery

noun

A person found guilty of a criminal offence and serving a sentence of imprisonment.

Usage examples:

Two escaped convicts kidnapped them at gunpoint

verb

To decide officially in a court of law that someone is guilty of a particular crime

Usage examples:

[ t ] there might not have been enough evidence to convict him.

noun

A conclusion or resolution reached after consideration.

Usage examples:

I'll make the decision on my own

noun

Something you choose; a choice

Usage examples:

The board will make its decision shortly., [ + to infinitive ] their decision not to attend the par…

noun

A choice that you make about something after thinking about several possibilities

Usage examples:

Make a decision she has had to make some very difficult decisions., reach a decision the company wi…

noun

An official order that has the force of law.

Usage examples:

The decree guaranteed freedom of assembly

verb

Order (something) by decree.

Usage examples:

The president decreed that the military was to be streamlined

noun

An order or statement of an official decision

Usage examples:

He refused to carry out the board’s decree., [ + that clause ] the olympic charter decrees that the…

noun

The quality of being determined; firmness of purpose.

Usage examples:

Those who succeed because of sheer grit and determination

noun

The ability to continue trying to do something, even if it is difficult

Usage examples:

[ + to infinitive ] she has a lot of determination to succeed.

noun

The ability to continue trying to do something, although it is very difficult

Usage examples:

I admired his drive and determination - he never gave up., determination to do sth she had great de…

noun

Death, destruction, or some other terrible fate.

Usage examples:

The aircraft was sent crashing to its doom in the water

verb

Condemn to certain death or destruction.

Usage examples:

Fuel was spilling out of the damaged wing and the aircraft was doomed

noun

Death, destruction, or any very bad situation that cannot be avoided

Usage examples:

A sense of doom hung over the entire country., doom and gloom the newspapers are always full of doo…

noun

The ability to make considered decisions or come to sensible conclusions.

Usage examples:

An error of judgement

noun

→  judgment

noun

A chamber pot.

adjective

Short for poor, used to represent dialectal speech.

abbreviation

Petty officer.

noun

A formal or authoritative announcement or declaration.

Usage examples:

Distrust of the pronouncements of politicians was endemic

noun

An official or formal statement

verb

Inflict a penalty or sanction on (someone) as retribution for an offence, especially a transgression of a legal or moral code.

Usage examples:

I have done wrong and i'm being punished for it

verb

To cause people who have done something wrong or committed a crime to suffer by making them do something they don’t want to do or sending them to prison

Usage examples:

She was punished for being late to school., swimming in the potomac is punishable by a fine., [ c ]…

noun

The infliction or imposition of a penalty as retribution for an offence.

Usage examples:

Crime demands just punishment

noun

An authoritative decision or pronouncement, especially one made by a judge.

Usage examples:

The ruling was reversed in the appeal court

adjective

Currently exercising authority or influence.

Usage examples:

The ruling coalition

verb

Exercise ultimate power or authority over (an area and its people).

Usage examples:

The region today is ruled by elected politicians

verb

Supply a very ungenerous or inadequate amount of (something).

Usage examples:

Stowage room hasn't been stinted

noun

A person's fixed or allotted period of work.

Usage examples:

His varied career included a stint as a magician

noun

A small short-legged sandpiper of northern eurasia and alaska, with a brownish back and white underparts.

Usage examples:

More than half a dozen species of birds have come to roost, which include black-winged stilts, catt…

verb

(of something soft or elastic) be made or be capable of being made longer or wider without tearing or breaking.

Usage examples:

My jumper stretched in the wash

noun

An act of stretching one's limbs or body.

Usage examples:

I got up and had a stretch

verb

To reach across a distance or become longer or wider, or to cause something to do this

Usage examples:

[ i ] rubber stretches when you pull it., [ t ] the banner was stretched across the street., [ m ] …

noun

The indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole.

Usage examples:

Travel through space and time

verb

Plan, schedule, or arrange when (something) should happen or be done.

Usage examples:

The first track race is timed for 11.15

noun

The seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, etc., in which existence is measured, or the past, present, and future considered as a whole

Usage examples:

I really don’t have time to call her today., the children spent most of their time outdoors., we’d …

noun

A decision on an issue of fact in a civil or criminal case or an inquest.

Usage examples:

The jury returned a verdict of not guilty

noun

A decision by a jury as to whether someone is guilty after having heard the facts given at a trial

Usage examples:

The jury reached/returned a verdict of not guilty after six hours of deliberation., city planners t…

noun

An official decision made in a court at the end of a trial

Usage examples:

We disagree with this jury's verdict., a verdict of guilty/not guilty, reach/record/return a verdic…