Convict

Word CONVICT
Character 7
Hyphenation con vict con vict
Pronunciations /ˈkɒnvɪkt/

Definitions and meanings of "Convict"

What do we mean by convict?

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. intransitive verb

A person found or declared guilty of an offense or crime. noun

A person serving a sentence of imprisonment. noun

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.

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. noun

Proved or found guilty; convicted. adjective

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. noun

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. transitive verb

A person convicted of a crime by a judicial body.

A person deported to a penal colony.

The convict cichlid (Amatitlania nigrofasciata), also known as the zebra cichlid, a popular aquarium fish, with stripes that resemble a prison uniform.

A common name for the sheepshead (Archosargus probatocephalus), owing to its black and gray stripes.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Convict

The word "convict" in example sentences

A mercenary spaceship ferrying a convict is attacked by a horde of unidentified fighter craft. ❋ Unknown (2006)

But why rely on those generalizations when a convict is already being scrutinized at the individual level? ❋ Unknown (2004)

Oh well, the stir, or the pen, as they call it in convict argot, is a training school for philosophy. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In CA, every first time drug possession convict is already offered out-of-prison treatment. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Billy had told her of the great perch Cal Hutchins caught on the day of the eclipse, when he had little dreamed the heart of his manhood would be spent in convict's garb. ❋ Unknown (2010)

[Note, however, that some courts hold, controversially, that a pardon does not preclude the imposition of attorney discipline based on the underlying conduct, because a pardon “cannot work such moral changes as to warrant the assertion that a pardoned convict is just as reliable as one who has constantly maintained the character of a good citizen.”] ❋ Unknown (2008)

Rourke will play a convict from a Mexican prison who is sold into the game, and 50 Cent the man employed to escort him to the bloody game. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It doesn't help that in spite of being a first-term convict serving a short sentence for bank robbery, Chaffee was a nice guy. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Next time, he hears a murder report I hope he remembers that his Green River convict is enjoying the good life in Walla Walla. ❋ Unknown (2006)

"The manufacturer of the game, in which an ex-convict is hired to recover stolen drug money in the streets of Miami, has been harshly criticized for its portrayal of Haitians." ❋ Unknown (2004)

Have one called convict poker, where they get the bull in the chute about from me to you from this table where these four inmates sit ostensibly playing poker. ❋ Unknown (2000)

It was reported that a full pardon had been offered to a long-term convict on condition that he carry out the court's mandate upon the body of the condemned mongrel, and that he had refused, even though the price were freedom for himself. ❋ Unknown (1910)

Tiff -- was the sort of definition to take one's breath away, having regard to the fact that both the word convict and the word pauper had been used ❋ Joseph Conrad (1890)

Tiff -- was the sort of definition to take one's breath away, having regard to the fact that both the word convict and the word pauper had been used a moment before Flora de Barral ran away from the quarrel about the lace trimmings. ❋ Joseph Conrad (1890)

Police await arrest warrant against double life-term convict in murder case ❋ Unknown (2009)

_] [Footnote 125: "Men are governed by words: under the infamous term convict, are comprehended offenders of the most different degrees and species of guilt. ❋ John West (1840)

Shpack is herein classed Russian for lack of a more adequate term; for Shpack's father, a Slavonic convict from the Lower Provinces, had escaped from the quicksilver mines into Northern Siberia, where he knew Zimba, who was a woman of the Deer People and who became the mother of Shpack, who became the grandfather of Jees Uck. Now had not Shpack been captured in his boyhood by the Sea People, who fringe the rim of the Arctic Sea with their misery, he would not have become the grandfather of Jees Uck and there would be no story at all. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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