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n.
judgment of a court
1) to impose, pass, pronounce (a) sentence
2) to carry out, execute a sentence
3) to serve (out) a sentence
4) to commute; reduce; suspend; vacate a sentence
5) a harsh, severe, stiff; light sentence
6) a death; indefinite, indeterminate; life; prison; suspended sentence
7) under sentence
8) (misc.) to get off with a light sentence
independent group of words
9) to form, formulate, make up; generate a sentence
10) an affirmative; complex; compound; declarative; elliptical; embedded; exclamatory; impersonal; interrogative; negative; simple sentence
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v. (D; tr.) to sentence for; to (the judge sentenced him to five years for theft; the convicted murderer was sentenced to death)