English
English English - Japanese English - Korean English - Spanish Japanese - English Spanish - English
English

convict

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Law convictcon‧vict1 /kənˈvɪkt/ ●くろまる○しろまる○しろまる verb [transitive] SCTGUILTYto prove or officially announce that someone is guilty of a crime after a trial in a law court OPP acquitconvict somebody of something She was convicted of shoplifting.convict somebody on something He was convicted on fraud charges. a convicted murderer→ See Verb table Examples from the Corpusconvict• The couple were convicted in December.• He was never convicted of anything in this country.• In due course, she was charged with and convicted of obstruction of a police constable in the execution of his duty.• Naturalization Service improperly permitted naturalization of immigrants convicted of serious crimes. convicted on ... charges• But in 1998 those prisons held 236,800 people convicted on drug charges-57 percent more than had been there in 1990.• The men, convicted on espionage charges, had been sentenced to 15-year prison terms in 1987.• Jim Guy Tucker, were convicted on related fraud charges last May.Related topics: Jail & punishment convictcon‧vict2 /ˈkɒnvɪkt $ ˈkɑːn-/ noun [countable] SCJsomeone who has been proved to be guilty of a crime and sent to prison an escaped convictExamples from the Corpusconvict• Howard plays a convict conscripted with others to help battle a flood along the banks of the Mississippi in 1927.• State law bars convicts from holding offices invested with executive or legislative authority.• She walked through, feeling like a condemned convict.• There was a report on the news about an escaped convict.• We were a bunch of convicts, we were.• Fujimori has ruled out releasing convicts.• Fifty-two convicts began a hunger strike on November 30th.• These were State enterprises, engineered by the military, and using convict and forced labour.• Sakhalin was an island where convicts were sent, 700 miles form Khabarovsk.Origin convict1 (1300-1400) Latin past participle of convincere; → CONVINCE
Quizzes
Pictures of the day
What are these? Click on the pictures to check.

Explore topics

See all topics
Verb table
convict
Simple Form
Present
I, you, we, they convict
he, she, it convicts
> View More
Past
I, you, he, she, it, we, they convicted
Present perfect
I, you, we, they have convicted
he, she, it has convicted
Past perfect
I, you, he, she, it, we, they had convicted
Future
I, you, he, she, it, we, they will convict
Future perfect
I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have convicted
> View Less
Continuous Form
Present
I am convicting
he, she, it is convicting
> View More
you, we, they are convicting
Past
I, he, she, it was convicting
you, we, they were convicting
Present perfect
I, you, we, they have been convicting
he, she, it has been convicting
Past perfect
I, you, he, she, it, we, they had been convicting
Future
I, you, he, she, it, we, they will be convicting
Future perfect
I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have been convicting
> View Less
Quantcast

AltStyle によって変換されたページ (->オリジナル) /