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adjudge
 
SYLLABICATION:ad·judge
PRONUNCIATION:  -jj
TRANSITIVE VERB:Inflected forms: ad·judged, ad·judg·ing, ad·judg·es
1a. To determine or decide by judicial procedure; adjudicate. b. To order judicially; rule. c. To award (damages, for example) by law. 2. To regard, consider, or deem: was adjudged incompetent.
ETYMOLOGY:Middle English ajugen, from Old French ajuger, from Latin adidicre. See adjudicate.
 
 
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