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Commuted

Commute \Com*mute"\ (k[o^]m*m[=u]t"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Commuted; p. pr. & vb. n. Commuting.] [L. commutare, -mutatum; com- + mutare to change. See Mutation.] 1. To exchange; to put or substitute something else in place of, as a smaller penalty, obligation, or payment, for a greater, or a single thing for an aggregate; hence, to lessen; to diminish; as, to commute a sentence of death to one of imprisonment for life; to commute tithes; to commute charges for fares.

The sounds water and fire, being once annexed to those two elements, it was certainly more natural to call beings participating of the first ``watery'', and the last ``fiery'', than to commute the terms, and call them by the reverse.
--J. Harris

The utmost that could be obtained was that her sentence should be commuted from burning to beheading.
--Macaulay.

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commuted

vb. (en-past of: commute)

Usage examples of "commuted".

We knew just by the way he looked that he wasn't made for Old Sparky, and we were right - less than a week after Percy's second run at that mouse, The Pres's sentence was commuted to life and he joined the general population.

If he got his sentence commuted to life, that meant the day would come when he made parole and hit the street.

Two days later, however, when the governor acted on the board's recommendation and commuted William Croydon's sentence to life imprisonment, one persistent reporter managed to get Paul in front of a video camera.

Being but strange here, then, and coming at Christmas time, we took a liking for his very picter that hangs in what used to be, anciently, afore our ten poor gentlemen commuted for an annual stipend in money, our great Dinner Hall.

Redlaw, that of the learned gentleman in the peaked beard, with a ruff round his neck - hangs up, second on the right above the panelling, in what used to be, afore our ten poor gentlemen commuted, our great Dinner Hall.

The jury, regretting that California did not have an electric chair to make his punishment fit the crime, had sentenced him to death in the gas chamber, but his sentence had been commuted by California's lady chief justice to life imprisonment.

Moreover, if Pope had had all his marbles, he would have observed from Skardon's autobiographywhich he now with regret realized was unnecessarily candidthat Skardon was not the man to share his brainchild with anyone, even the man who had commuted his life sentence to life.

The sentence was afterwards commuted to one of penal servitude for life, the Home Secretary of the day showing by his decision that, though not satisfied of the prisoner's insanity, he recognised certain extenuating circumstances in his guilt.

Two days before the day of execution Habron was granted a respite, and later his sentence commuted to one of penal servitude for life.