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adjective

as in condemned

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verb

past tense of convict
as in sentenced
to find or pronounce guilty an accused person is presumed innocent until convicted in a court of law

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Recent Examples of convicted
Verb
If they are convicted of kidnapping a federal employee, they could be imprisoned for life. — Dennis Romero, NBC news, 21 July 2026 But then Majors was convicted of domestic violence, and Marvel fired the actor soon after. — ArsTechnica, 20 July 2026 He was convicted at trial and sentenced to 10 years in prison, of which six were suspended, followed by 10 years on probation, court records show. — Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 20 July 2026 His wife died in July, and Porter was convicted the following year, and in March 1898, sentenced to five years in prison for embezzlement. — Literary Hub, 20 July 2026 Have you been arrested, charged or convicted of a crime, had an adjudication withheld or had a matter sealed or expunged? — Stephen V. Iacullo, Sun Sentinel, 16 July 2026 According to court records, Bunyard was convicted in the 1979 killing of his wife, Elaine Bunyard, who was nine months pregnant, and her unborn daughter in San Joaquin County. — Richard Ramos, CBS News, 14 July 2026 Court records show that while some had felony convictions, others had unresolved immigration proceedings or had been arrested but never convicted of a crime. — ABC News, 13 July 2026 If convicted, Mohr faces up to seven years in prison on the burglary charge and up to four years on the property damage charge, according to court documents. — Kansas City Star, 13 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for convicted
  1. indicted
  2. condemned
  3. sentenced
  4. accused
  5. denounced
  6. punished
  7. charged
Adjective
  • Jim Trusty, the lawyer for Rozier, excoriated the league after a hearing Wednesday that served as a status update on Rozier’s case, as well as the other three defendants who remain indicted alongside him.
    — Mike Vorkunov, New York Times, 11 June 2026
  • The conservative-leaning New York Post has also reported Wahhaj was listed as an un-indicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
    — Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 23 Oct. 2025
Definition of indicted
Verb
  • The lack of rights owed to victims in canonical trials has been repeatedly condemned by international commissions and inquests into clergy abuse that have found that the church’s procedures retraumatize victims through their secrecy and opacity.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 21 July 2026
  • Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Tuesday called for a full investigation into the death of a man during an arrest in Bologna and condemned anti-police protests that turned violent and left dozens of officers injured.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 21 July 2026
Definition of condemned
Verb
  • After a debaucherous decade, Belfort is eventually caught and sentenced to prison.
    — Keith Langston, PEOPLE, 19 July 2026
  • At 26, he had been convicted of murder and sentenced to death in the electric chair.
    — Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 19 July 2026
Definition of sentenced
Verb
  • Defense lawyers say the woman arrested in the 2012 killing of Irasema Chavez in Arlington has been falsely accused and are asking the court to set bail for the defendant.
    — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 July 2026
  • In February, Anthropic accused three Chinese AI companies of creating tens of thousands of user accounts to harvest data from its Claude model for the purpose of training their own AI models.
    — Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 23 July 2026
Definition of accused
Verb
  • Netanyahu, however, has neither endorsed or denounced these settlement plans, and they have not been brought before the Israeli cabinet.
    — Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 20 July 2026
  • The financier Carl Icahn, Ackman’s longtime nemesis and business rival, famously denounced him as a self-righteous crybaby.
    — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 20 July 2026
Definition of denounced
Verb
  • Public corruption should always be investigated and punished.
    — Eric "Doc" Stelnicki, Sun Sentinel, 20 July 2026
  • And that race, gender and sexuality shouldn’t play a role in who is being punished.
    — Kate Perez, Chicago Tribune, 20 July 2026
Definition of punished
Verb
  • Ponce was charged in the March 2022 shooting death of John Reyes, 21, at a party in north Fort Worth.
    — Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 July 2026
  • D4vd, whose legal name is David Anthony Burke, has been charged with killing and dismembering the 14-year-old.
    — Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 25 July 2026
Definition of charged

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