acquit
acquit.01 - relieve of guilt
ACQUIT-V NOTES: Based on WSJ, automatic expansion via verbnet. VN updated by Julia. Member of VN class free-10.6.3-1. (from acquit.01-v)ACQUITTAL-N NOTES: Automatically created by Julia as an alias file for unification. (from acquittal.01-n)
Aliases:
acquit (v.)
acquittal (n.)
acquittal (n.)
Roles:
ARG0-CAU: remover of guilt
ARG1-DIR: (un)guilty party
ARG2-PPT: explicit mention of guilt
ARG1-DIR: (un)guilty party
ARG2-PPT: explicit mention of guilt
acquit-v: intransitive
Ultimately ,
that carefully picked juryARG0
deadlocked with a 10 - 2 vote to acquitrel
, and the prosecution decided not to retry the case .acquit-v: passive transitive
Although
Mr. HastingsARG1
had been acquittedrel
by a juryARG0
, lawmakers handling the prosecution in Congress had argued that the purpose of impeachment is n't to punish an individual .acquit-v: all args
Mr. Hastings 's case was particularly nettlesome because it marked the first time a federal official was impeached and removed from office on charges
of whichARG2
a juryARG0
had acquittedrel
himARG1
.