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Meaning convict meaning

What does convict mean?
Definitions in simple English

convict Verb

— If a judge or a jury convicts someone, they officially decide the person is guilty of a crime. If he is convicted of all charges, he is facing between eight and 25 years in prison.

convict Noun

— A convict is a person who has been found guilty of a crime and received a jail sentence.

convict

— verb find or declare guilty The man was convicted of fraud and sentenced — noun a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison — noun a person who has been convicted of a criminal offense

Synonyms convict synonyms

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Topics convict topics

What do people use convict to talk about?
Language and thought Emotion Feel bad

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Social behavior Law Judge, render a verdict

Condemn, find guilty
Social behavior Law Punish

Imprison

Conjugation convict conjugation

How do you conjugate convict?

convict · verb

Examples convict examples

How do I use convict in a sentence?

Simple sentences

A convict has escaped from prison.
There wasn't enough evidence to convict him of the crime.
The escaped convict is armed and dangerous.
Tom found the evidence we needed to convict Mary's killer.
The convict was pardoned after serving his sentence.
The police are hunting an escaped convict in this area.
We now have all the evidence we need to convict Tom Jackson.
I'm supposed to feel sympathy for the convict?

Movie subtitles

You catch him, and I'll convict him.
Far be it from me to convict an innocent man, so, if you don't mind, I'II just toddle along.
A man said if you convict Martin, that they'II.
Morally and legally, you must convict.
The law can't convict you of murder if there's no corpse.
Yes, still working like a convict.
I wouldn't show him in a convict suit so his children could see his picture in the paper.
We admit the defendant's error. but you cannot convict a captain for bad seamanship.
Maybe they won't convict you.
You know, they'll never convict Stanley of that killing.
What are you trying to do? Convict a man because he looks at the sun?
And you have no obligation to live with a convict.
And since she had no idea anyone would ever see that note but you it therefore has just enough of a confession to convict you of helping her kill her husband.
He said they'd convict me.
You can't convict her without proof.
It's no business of mine to catch him. You catch him, and I'll convict him.
Now, fellow, we'll be done with the witnesses. and I will convict you out of your own rascally mouth.
Will you convict her if you don't find it?
Bunny, if I were to strangle you, no jury in the world would convict me. You don't think..?
Oh, and may I ask what the convict has done?
A convict? Do you know what that means?
He's an ex-convict.
As you know, a parolee or convict has no civil rights.
Why should an ex-convict, seek employment. in the home of a man known to the world as a great detective?
The convict, thank heavens.
But how did this convict come to be wearing Sir Henry clothes?
The convict who escaped from Princeton.
You'll have to report to the police here about that convict in the morning but there is a train living early in the afternoon.
And enough evidence to convict you. L.
No jury on earth would convict me.
Do you think they'll convict him?
If they convict him, it'll be on your testimony.
You can't convict a man on that.
I can't prove it, and they'll convict me just like they did him.
Because it was me who helped you convict him.
If I owned a paper and didn't like the way somebody was doing things some politician, I'd fight him with all I had. I wouldn't show him in a convict suit so his children could see his picture in the paper.
But we're helpless unless we get actual evidence to convict them.
Nicky, do something before they both convict themselves.
You're convicting him before they convict him.
It is if you've just heard Nick Varna say he had enough evidence to convict someone of Taylor's murder.

News and current affairs

No court should convict someone lightly because of the views he espouses in the public sphere.
If a convict turns out to be innocent, his execution cannot be undone.
The mood in the US today is far from the point that it reached in 1973 and 1974, when the drive to impeach Nixon and convict him in the US Senate forced him to resign.
The war crimes tribunal in The Hague, established and dominated by western countries, will never indict, much less convict, a NATO official.
Trying to convict him is like trying to convict the first person who installed a telephone.
There is no underplaying the significance of the court's unanimous decision to convict the first Philippine president ever to undergo a criminal trial.
After that return to sanity, it was hard to convict someone for political speech or writing in Britain.
Convict laborers, like the rest of the Chinese workforce on such projects, are housed near the project site. That way, if any convict worker escaped, he would be easy to find in an alien setting.
The use of convict laborers adds a disturbing new dimension to this strategy.
Genocide's stringent requirements mean that it is - and should be - difficult to convict a defendant.
The war in Bosnia devastated the civilian population, and war-crimes tribunals were convened in The Hague, starting in 1996, to convict those responsible for the massacres.
Italy's investigating magistrates have consistently refused to accept the popularity and electoral power of a business tycoon whom they have tried to convict for many years.

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