Usually means: Impose judicial punishment on someone.
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  1. pass sentence: Merriam-Webster
  2. pass sentence: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (pass sentence)

▸ verb:  (intransitive) To sentence; to pronounce a sentence on (a criminal, etc.).

Similar:
judge, condemn, punish, pronounce, prison, convict, pass, forjudge, penalize, incriminate, more...

Opposite:
acquit, exonerate, absolve, clear

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Similar:
judge, condemn, punish, pronounce, prison, convict, pass, forjudge, penalize, incriminate, more...

Opposite:
acquit, exonerate, absolve, clear



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