sentenced
SEN-tuhnst/ˈsɛntənst/
- 1Simple past and past participle of sentence.
The court sentenced the defendant to ten years for armed robbery.
Both men were sentenced to life without the possibility of parole.
Note
A regular -ed form, so one spelling does both jobs: the judge sentenced him (past) and he has been sentenced (participle). Because the verb is transitive, the participle most often appears in the passive, with the punishment introduced by to: sentenced to life, sentenced to ten years. The same spelling also carries the rarer poetic sense of decreeing or pronouncing something as a sentence.
sentenced is a form of sentence
sentence, verb: To formally declare the punishment a convicted person must undergo; to condemn to punishment. Full entry
- Forms
- sentencesentences he/she/itsentencing -ing formsentenced past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- sentence → sentenced: add -d
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /t/.
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