convict

verbnounB1 · Intermediate

To find someone guilty of a crime.

Meanings of «convict»

1 · verb

to find someone guilty of a crime

The court will convict him if the evidence is strong.

2 · noun

a person who is in prison for a crime

The convict spent ten years locked in a small cell.

Similar: prisonerinmateconvicted criminal

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The difference between similar words

a person who is kept in prison

prisonerthe usual word for someone held in prisonThe prisoner was allowed one visit a month.

inmatesomeone living in a prison; the official wordEach inmate has a small room.

convictsomeone found guilty of a crime and sent to prisonThe convict escaped from the prison at night.

detaineeformalheld by officials, maybe without a trialThe detainee waited for his lawyer.

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