Convict

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  • intransitive verb. To find or prove (someone) guilty of an offense or crime, especially by the verdict of a court.
  • intransitive verb. To show or declare to be blameworthy; condemn.
  • intransitive verb. To make aware of one's sinfulness or guilt.
  • intransitive verb. To return a verdict of guilty in a court.
  • noun. A person found or declared guilty of an offense or crime.
  • noun. A person serving a sentence of imprisonment.
  • 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.
  • noun. 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Proved or found guilty; convicted.
  • noun. A person proved guilty of a crime alleged against him; one legally convicted or sentenced to punishment for some crime.
  • noun. A criminal sentenced to penal servitude.
  • transitive verb. To prove or find guilty of an offense or crime charged; to pronounce guilty, as by legal decision, or by one's conscience.
  • transitive verb. To prove or show to be false; to confute; to refute.
  • transitive verb. To demonstrate by proof or evidence; to prove.
  • transitive verb. To defeat; to doom to destruction.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To find guilty
  • noun. A person convicted of a crime by a judicial body.
  • noun. A person deported to a penal colony.
  • noun. A common name for the sheepshead (Archosargus probatocephalus), owing to its black and stripes.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a person who has been convicted of a criminal offense
  • noun. a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison
  • verb. find or declare guilty
  • Word Usage
    "A mercenary spaceship ferrying a convict is attacked by a horde of unidentified fighter craft."
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