adjudicate

adjudicate has 4 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 10.

Definitions

• v. t.. To adjudge; to try and determine, as a court; to settle by judicial decree.
• v. i.. To come to a judicial decision; as, the court adjudicated upon the case.
• v.. bring to an end; settle conclusively; "The case was decided"; "The judge decided the case in favor of the plaintiff"; "The father adjudicated when the sons were quarreling over their inheritance"
• v.. put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of; "The football star was tried for the murder of his wife"; "The judge tried both father and son in separate trials"