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amnestied

UK/ˈam.nəs.tiːd/

amnestied is the simple past and past participle of amnesty.

Meaning of amnesty

Verb

amnesty (third-person singular simple present amnesties, present participle amnestying, simple past and past participle amnestied)

  1. (transitive) To grant a pardon (to a group).
    • Shortly after the end of military rule in 1983, the Argentinean National Congress passed legislation that effectively amnestied many persons who allegedly committed human rights violations such as torture, extra-judicial killing, and forced disappearance. […] In other words, a government may be...Fall 2007, Gaspar Forteza, “Regarding Simón y otros: Accountability in Argentina and International Human Rights as Domestic Positive Law”, in FIU Law Review, volume 3, number 1, →ISSN, archived from...

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Adjective

amnestied (comparative more amnestied, superlative most amnestied)

  1. That has been given amnesty; whose past offences have been forgiven.
    • The opening of the Panthéon Club in November 1795, a successor to the closed Jacobins, marked the beginnings of a recovery of the extra-parliamentary Left, now reinforced by amnestied militants.2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 509

Forms of amnestied

comparativemore amnestied
superlativemost amnestied

Origin of amnestied

From amnesty + -ed.

Questions about amnestied

What does amnestied mean?
Amnestied means that has been given amnesty; whose past offences have been forgiven.
What is amnestied the simple past and past participle of?
Amnestied is the simple past and past participle of amnesty.
What part of speech is amnestied?
Amnestied is an adjective.
How do you pronounce amnestied?
Amnestied is pronounced /ˈam.nəs.tiːd/ (UK).

Words near amnestied in the dictionary

  1. amnestic mild cognitive impairment
  2. amnestic mild cognitive impairments
  3. amnestical
  4. amnestically
  5. amnestics
  6. amnestied
  7. amnesties
  8. amnesty
  9. amnestying
  10. amnia
  11. amnicolid

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Adapted from Wiktionary: amnestied (page history and authors); amnesty (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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