awardest

Verb

award (third-person singular simple present awards, present participle awarding, simple past and past participle awarded)

1. (intransitive) To determine; to make or grant an award.
   • To assert its control, Vietnam has since established Spratly Island as a township in Truòng Sa district, organized local elections and tours in the Spratlys, and has continued to award oil exploration contracts.2013 December, Clarence J. Bouchat, Dangerous Ground: the Spratly Islands and U.S. Interests and Approaches, U.S. Army War College, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 33

   Synonyms:

   crown

2. (transitive) To give (an award).
   • Four or five of these medals are awarded every year.

   Synonyms:

   bestow

3. (transitive) To give (a person) an award.
   • He was awarded with the Nobel Prize for Literature.

   Synonyms:

   laurel

4. (transitive) To give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign or apportion, after careful regard to the nature of the case.
   • The arbitrators awarded damages to the complainant.

   Synonyms:

   adjudge

5. (UK, transitive) (in an examination) To give marks for a correct answer.
   • Do not award marks for data from previous questions.

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