acquit

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. Law To free or clear from a charge or accusation.
2. v. To release or discharge from a duty.
3. v. To conduct (oneself) in a specified manner: acquitted herself well during the interview.
4. v. Obsolete To repay.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To release or discharge, as from an obligation, accusation, guilt, censure, suspicion, or whatever is laid against or upon a person as a charge or duty; specifically, in law, to pronounce not guilty: as, we acquit a man of evil intentions; the jury acquitted the prisoner. It is followed by of before the thing of which one is acquitted; to acquit from is obsolete.
2. To atone for.
3. To settle, as a debt; requite; pay; discharge; fulfil.
4. With a reflexive pronoun: To clear one's self.
5. To behave; bear or conduct one's self: as, the soldier acquitted himself well in battle; the orator acquitted himself indifferently.
6. . To release; set free; rescue.
7. Synonyms To exonerate, exculpate, discharge, set free. See absolve.
8. To behave, act, bear, conduct, demean, deport, or quit (one's self).
9. Past participle of acquit.

Wiktionary

1. v. To declare or find not guilty; innocent.
2. v. followed by “of” To set free, release or discharge from an obligation, duty, liability, burden, or from an accusation or charge.
3. v. obsolete, rare To pay for; to atone for
4. v. To discharge, as a claim or debt; to clear off; to pay off; to requite, to fulfill.
5. v. reflexive To clear one’s self.
6. v. reflexive To bear or conduct one’s self; to perform one’s part.
7. v. obsolete To release, set free, rescue.
8. v. archaic Past participle of acquit, set free, rid of.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. Archaic Acquitted; set free; rid of.
2. v. To discharge, as a claim or debt; to clear off; to pay off; to requite.
3. v. obsolete To pay for; to atone for.
4. v. To set free, release or discharge from an obligation, duty, liability, burden, or from an accusation or charge; -- now followed by of before the charge, formerly by from
5. v. To clear one's self.
6. v. To bear or conduct one's self; to perform one's part

WordNet 3.0

1. v. pronounce not guilty of criminal charges
2. v. behave in a certain manner