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convict Definition

con·vict (kən vikt′; for n. kän′vikt′)

transitive verb

  1. to prove (a person) guilty convicted by the evidence
  2. to judge and find guilty of an offense charged the jury convicted him of theft
  3. to bring to a realization of one's guilt convicted by his own conscience

Etymology: ME convicten < L convictus, pp. of convincere: see convince

noun

  1. a person found guilty of a crime and sentenced by a court
  2. a person serving a sentence in prison

convict Synonyms

convict

n.

prisoner, malefactor, felon, con*; see criminal, prisoner.

convict Synonyms

convict

v.

find guilty, prove guilty, condemn, sentence, pass sentence on, adjudge, doom, declare guilty, pronounce guilty, bring to justice, seal one's doom, sign one's death warrant, lock up, cook*, send up*, bring home to*; see also condemn 1.

Antonyms acquit, exonerate, find not guilty.

convict Law Definition

n

One whom a court has determined is guilty of an offense, either by accepting a valid guilty plea from the individual or upon a verdict of guilty by a judge or jury.

v

To prove or officially find a person to be guilty of an offense.

n

One serving a prison sentence.

convict Usage Examples

Object

  • felon: Only certain people are qualified to declare war, baptize others or sentence convicted felons.
  • murderer: Carl Waters, a convicted murderer, is set free at the same time.
  • pedophile: If you too believe that this convicted pedophile should be removed from this honors list, please sign Kirk's petition.
  • rapist: It has resulted in a convicted rapist winning four thousand pounds worth of compensation because his second appeal was delayed.
  • fraudster: They were reported to be searching fields by South Park - the home of convicted fraudster David McHugh.
  • offender: A convicted sex offender escaped to the woods in Maine in the depth of the winter.

Subject

jury: Malone denied murder but was convicted by the jury.

Modifying Another Word

  • wrongfully: What the wrongfully convicted seek, are legal solutions to legal wrongs not situations that only compound their problems.
  • wrongly: The approach he advocates could have been enormously helpful to women who were wrongly convicted of killing their dead children.

Used with why or when

who: Another version derives from the fact that many immigrants to Oz were British convicts who had been transported there.

Preposition: in

magistrate: If someone was convicted in the magistrates ' court, they could be fined up to £ 1,000.

Preposition: of

  • manslaughter: A 25 year old man was charged with murder but convicted of manslaughter for which he was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment.
  • offense: You have never been convicted of any criminal offenses.
  • murder: Mr Gair, 37, was convicted of the brutal murder of Mr Smith in 1989.
  • treason: He was soon captured, convicted of treason, and executed.
  • felony: A person convicted of a third felony in his or her lifetime will be sentenced to life imprisonment for the third felony.
  • conspiracy: Steven Dowd and Alex Bell were convicted of conspiracy to defraud in March 2005 following a trial that commenced in September 2004.

Preposition: for

  • offense: Have been arrested or convicted for any offense or crime.
  • murder: Ballard spent three years on death row in Florida after being convicted for the murder of two of his acquaintances and long time neighbors.

Preposition: by

jury: Malone denied murder but was convicted by the jury.