sentenced

Verb

sentence (third-person singular simple present sentences, present participle sentencing, simple past and past participle sentenced)

1. (transitive) To declare a sentence on a convicted person; to condemn to punishment.
   • The judge sentenced the embezzler to ten years in prison, along with a hefty fine.

   Synonyms:

   adjudge, condemn, doom, convict, damn, deem, judge, pass sentence

2. (especially, poetic) To decree, announce, or pass as a sentence.
   • “We are empowered to deliver thee to prison; yea, the law commands us to sentence death upon the abettors of this mischief.[…]"1874, Ella Taylor Disosway, South Meadows: A Tale of Long Ago, page 235
3. (obsolete) To utter sententiously.
   • Let me heare one wise man sentence it, rather then twenty Fooles, garrulous in their lengthened tattle.1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political

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