Convict

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The American HeritageĀ® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. Law To find or prove (someone) guilty of an offense or crime, especially by the verdict of a court: The jury convicted the defendant of manslaughter.
  • v. To show or declare to be blameworthy; condemn: His remarks convicted him of a lack of sensitivity.
  • v. To make aware of one's sinfulness or guilt.
  • verb-intransitive. To return a verdict of guilty in a court: "We need jurors . . . who will not convict merely because they are suspiciousā€ ( Scott Turow).
  • n. Law A person found or declared guilty of an offense or crime.
  • n. Law A person serving a sentence of imprisonment.
  • adj. Archaic Found guilty; convicted.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To find guilty
  • n. A person convicted of a crime by a judicial body.
  • n. A person deported to a penal colony.
  • n. A common name for the sheepshead (Archosargus probatocephalus), owing to its black and stripes.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Proved or found guilty; convicted.
  • n. A person proved guilty of a crime alleged against him; one legally convicted or sentenced to punishment for some crime.
  • n. A criminal sentenced to penal servitude.
  • v. To prove or find guilty of an offense or crime charged; to pronounce guilty, as by legal decision, or by one's conscience.
  • v. To prove or show to be false; to confute; to refute.
  • v. To demonstrate by proof or evidence; to prove.
  • v. To defeat; to doom to destruction.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To prove or find guilty of an offense charged; specifically, to determine or adjudge to be guilty after trial before a legal tribunal, as by the verdict of a jury or other legal decision: as, to convict the prisoner of felony.
  • To convince of wrong-doing or sin; bring (one) to the belief or consciousness that one has done wrong; awaken the conscience of.
  • To confute; prove or show to be false.
  • To show by proof or evidence.
  • Proved or found guilty; convicted.
  • Overcome; conquered.
  • n. A person proved or found guilty of an offense alleged against him; espeeially,one found guilty, after trial before a legal tribunal, by the verdict of a jury or other legal decision; hence, a person undergoing penal servitude; a convicted prisoner.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a person who has been convicted of a criminal offense
  • n. a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison
  • v. find or declare guilty
  • Verb Form
    Cross Reference
    Form
    con   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    convicted    criminal    felon    culprit    malefactor    confound    defect    confute    convince    refute   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    addict    afflict    clicked    conflict    constrict    contradict    depict    evict    handpicked    inflict   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    prisoner    emigrant    slave    peasant    settler    refugee    pirate    captive    immigrant    criminal