Synonyms for convict
kənˈvɪkt; ˈkɒn vɪktcon·vict

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1. convictverb

   Synonyms:
   sentence, disapprove

2. convictnoun

   To find guilty

   Synonyms:
   sentence, disapprove

3. convictnoun

   A person deported to a penal colony.

   Synonyms:
   penal colonist

4. convictnoun

   Synonyms:
   con, public servant, government man, assigned servant

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1. convict

   To condemn is to pass judicial sentence or render judgment or decision against. We may censure silently; we condemn ordinarily by open and formal utterance. Condemn is more final than blame or censure; a condemned criminal has had his trial; a condemned building can not stand; a condemned ship can not sail. A person is convicted when his guilt is made clearly manifest to others; in somewhat archaic use, a person is said to be convicted when guilt is brought clearly home to his own conscience (convict in this sense being allied with convince, which see under PERSUADE); in legal usage one is said to be convicted only by the verdict of a jury. In stating the penalty of an offense, the legal word sentence is now more common than condemn; as, he was sentenced to imprisonment; but it is good usage to say, he was condemned to imprisonment. To denounce is to make public or official declaration against, especially in a violent and threatening manner.

   From the pulpits in the northern States Burr was denounced as an assassin.

   Coffin Building the Nation ch. 10, p. 137. [Harper & Bros. '83.]

   To doom is to condemn solemnly and consign to evil or destruction or to predetermine to an evil destiny; an inferior race in presence of a superior is doomed to subjugation or extinction. Compare ARRAIGN; REPROVE.

   Synonyms:
   blame, censure, condemn, denounce, doom, reprobate, reprove, sentence

   Antonyms:
   absolve, acquit, applaud, approve, exonerate, justify, pardon, pardon, praise

   Preposition:
   The bandit was condemned to death for his crime.

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1. convict

   Synonyms:
   sentence, condemn

   Antonyms:
   acquit, discharge

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1. convict, con, inmate, yard bird, yardbirdnoun

   a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison

   Synonyms:
   confidence game, bunco, inpatient, hustle, bunko, confidence trick, bunko game, con game, gyp, yard bird, bunco game, con, sting, inmate, yardbird, flimflam

   Antonyms:
   assoil, discharge, clear, acquit, exonerate, exculpate

2. convictverb

   a person who has been convicted of a criminal offense

   Synonyms:
   inmate, yardbird, yard bird, con

   Antonyms:
   discharge, acquit, assoil, clear, exculpate, exonerate

3. convictverb

   find or declare guilty

   "The man was convicted of fraud and sentenced"

   Antonyms:
   assoil, exonerate, exculpate, discharge, clear, acquit

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1. convictverb

   Synonyms:
   prove guilty, detect in guilt

2. convictnoun

   Synonyms:
   malefactor, criminal, felon, culprit

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1. convictnoun

   Synonyms:
   felon, prisoner, criminal, culprit, malefactor

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1. List of paraphrases for "convict":

   condemn, sentenced, prisoner, inmate, condemned, reo, convicted, detainee

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1. Greg Sargent:

   Its also odd to hear the argument that no inquiry should happen simply because the Senate probably would never convict, impeachment hearings would be carried out tobenefit the public and the country, and thus cant turn on projections of the ultimate outcome. ...Just asduring the Nixon years, the first step is congressional investigations (which were seeing now), which then might lead to the opening of impeachment hearings. Those would weigh whether newly gathered facts merit impeachment or not, to inform the public of the momentous stakes and complexities involved in this decision.

2. John Boyle O'Reilly:

   Only those who have stood within the bars and heard the din of devils and the appalling sounds of despair can imagine the horrors of the hold of a convict ship.

3. Tazewell County:

   When we arrest somebody, when we convict somebody, there’s been a victim of a crime, when you’re changing laws to try to make things better for [criminals], what’s making things better for the victims who had to suffer?

4. Dale Bumpers:

   Nobody has suggested that President Clinton committed a political crime against the state. So, colleagues, if you honor the Constitution, you must look at the history of the Constitution and how we got to the impeachment clause. And if you do that and you do that honestly according to the oath you took, you can not. You can censure President Clinton. You can hand President Clinton over to the prosecutor for President Clinton to be prosecuted, But you can not convict President Clinton. And you can not indulge yourselves the luxury or the right to ignore this history.

5. Prime Minister Tony Abbott:

   Yes, you can't convict the kids on the basis of the crimes of the parents but nevertheless, they will be dealt with in exactly the same way as the families of criminals are normally dealt with, these aren't the first Australians who have committed very serious crimes overseas, who have families. They will be dealt with in the normal way.