convict
verb
• declare (someone) to be guilty of a criminal offence by the verdict of a jury or the decision of a judge in a court of law.
• "the theives were convicted of the robbery"
Similar:
declare/find/pronounce guilty,
sentence,
give someone a sentence,
send down for,
convict
noun
• a person found guilty of a criminal offence and serving a sentence of imprisonment.
• "two escaped convicts kidnapped them at gunpoint"
Similar:
prisoner,
inmate,
criminal,
offender,
lawbreaker,
felon,
trusty,
jailbird,
con,
(old) lag,
lifer,
crook,
yardbird,
lighty,
transport,
Origin:
Middle English: from Latin convict- ‘demonstrated, refuted, convicted’, from the verb convincere (see convince). The noun is from obsolete convict ‘convicted’.
