convict

adjective

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con·vict | \ kən-ˈvikt

Definition of convict

(Entry 1 of 3)

archaic

: having been convicted

convict

verb

con·vict | \ kən-ˈvikt

convicted; convicting; convicts

Definition of convict (Entry 2 of 3)

transitive verb

1 : to find or prove to be guilty The jury convicted them of fraud.

2 : to convince of error or sinfulness

intransitive verb

: to find a defendant guilty Remarkably, two of the jurors boldly dug in their heels and pressed to convict.— John Grisham

convict

noun

con·vict | \ ˈkän-ˌvikt

Definition of convict (Entry 3 of 3)

1 : a person convicted of and under sentence for a crime

2 : a person serving a usually long prison sentence

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Synonyms & Antonyms for convict

Synonyms: Verb

condemn

Synonyms: Noun

con,
jailbird

Antonyms: Verb

Examples of convict in a Sentence

Verb There is sufficient evidence to convict. He was convicted in federal court. The jury convicted them on three counts of fraud. Have you ever been convicted of a crime? Noun a warning that the three escaped convicts were armed and dangerous

Recent Examples on the Web: Verb Mixon took an Alford plea (maintaining innocence while acknowledging enough evidence to convict) to a misdemeanor charge of punching a woman. — The Enquirer, 24 Mar. 2022 After a weeklong trial, the same jury had taken four and a half hours Friday to convict Carraman of murder in the fatal shooting of Krisopher Carraman, 23, on March 27, 2020. — Elizabeth Zavala, San Antonio Express-News, 10 Jan. 2022 The House impeached former president Donald Trump for inciting the mob, but the Senate didn’t convict him. — Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2022 Darnella Frazier’s after her video helped convict George Floyd’s murderer. — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 17 Dec. 2021 To some Black Americans, that a nearly all-White jury would convict three White men who claimed self-defense in the killing of an African American person was a sign that their lives do matter. — Emmanuel Felton, Tim Craig, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Nov. 2021 Then, the state Senate conducts a trial during which two-thirds must vote to convict, which would remove the person from their position. — Molly Beck, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 Nov. 2021 Notably, the jury did not convict Wilke, his accomplice Shawn Edward Williams, and two other men who were not named in the court documents of starting the Maple Fire, which cost Washington state around $4.2 million to extinguish. — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 July 2021 The jury would convict, but the judge reduced the charge from murder to manslaughter, so Carson counted it as a win. — Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2021 Recent Examples on the Web: Noun Leaving a stable job for a convict is a major deviation from societal norms, Bourke said. — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 7 May 2022 In the fifth and final season, another Serling script presents a small town whose people eagerly await the hanging of a convict. — Colin Marshall, The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2022 The show revolves around a former convict who feels like a fish out of water in her new life as a a suburban mom, with a husband (J. Bernard Calloway), a challenging sister (Tami Roman) and two sets of kids. — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2022 Two years later, Dane went to Toronto to play a young convict on the CBC drama Shadow of a Pale Horse, and in 1965 the Canadian actor first went to Los Angeles to try his luck in Hollywood. — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Mar. 2022 The city is one step closer to purchasing the land that was once home to a brick company that used brutal convict labor practices. — Wilborn Nobles, ajc, 4 Apr. 2022 The trial could shed new light on the bizarre saga of an ex-convict who became a Pied Piper figure on a leafy liberal arts campus in Bronxville, an affluent New York City suburb. — New York Times, 6 Mar. 2022 Jean is a former professional rugby player and an ex-convict; he was incarcerated for some sort of criminal activity in which his friend François (Colin), a younger man, was also involved, but unprosecuted. — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2022 The movie from Russia is a black comedy about an ex-convict trying to reclaim her daughter by force. — John Jurgensen, WSJ, 16 Mar. 2022 See More

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