judge

1. (verb) form an opinion of or pass judgment on
Related Words: accept, adjudge, anticipate, appraise, approve, ascribe, assess, assign, attribute, believe, calculate, choose, conceive, consider, count on, critique, declare, disapprove, essay, estimate, evaluate, examine, expect, fail, figure, forecast, grade, hold, impute, measure, order, pass, place, prejudge, prove, range, rank, rate, reckon, reject, review, stand, test, think, try, try out, value

2. (verb) determine the result of, as of a competition
Related Words: decide, referee, resolve, settle, umpire

3. (verb) put on trial or 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"
Synonyms: adjudicate, try
Related Words: court-martial, decide, determine, make up one's mind

4. (noun) a public official authorized to decide questions bought before a court of justice
Synonyms: jurist, justice, magistrate
Related Words: Daniel, adjudicator, chief justice, doge, functionary, justice of the peace, justiciar, justiciary, official, ordinary, praetor, pretor, recorder, stipendiary, stipendiary magistrate, trial judge, trier

5. (noun) an authority who is able to estimate worth or quality
Synonyms: evaluator
Related Words: appraiser, authority, critic, valuator

6. (verb) pronounce judgment on; "They labeled him unfit to work here"
Synonyms: label, pronounce
Related Words: acquit, adjudge, assoil, clear, convict, declare, discharge, disqualify, exculpate, exonerate, find, hold, intonate, intone, nasalise, nasalize, qualify, rule, tout

7. (verb) form an opinion about; judge tentatively; form an estimate of, esp. quantities or time; "I estimate this chicken to weigh at three pounds"
Synonyms: approximate, estimate, gauge, guess
Related Words: calculate, cipher, compute, count, cypher, figure, give, guesstimate, lowball, make, misgauge, place, put, reckon, reckon, set, underestimate



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