CONVICT
\kˈɒnvɪkt], \kˈɒnvɪkt], \k_ˈɒ_n_v_ɪ_k_t]\
Definitions of CONVICT
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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a person who has been convicted of a criminal offence
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find or declare guilty; "The man was convicted of fraud and sentenced"
By Princeton University
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Proved or found guilty; convicted.
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A person proved guilty of a crime alleged against him; one legally convicted or sentenced to punishment for some crime.
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A criminal sentenced to penal servitude.
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To prove or find guilty of an offense or crime charged; to pronounce guilty, as by legal decision, or by one's conscience.
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To prove or show to be false; to confute; to refute.
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To demonstrate by proof or evidence; to prove.
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To defeat; to doom to destruction.
By Oddity Software
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To prove or pronounce guilty of a crime charged.
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A criminal sentenced, to prison; one serving his time in prison.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To prove guilty; to pronounce guilty.
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One convicted or found guilty of crime, esp. one who has been condemned to penal servitude.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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