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say it: uh-JOO-di-kayt
adjudicate is a verb meaning "put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of". It carries 2 recorded senses.
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”
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for adjudicate come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.