Indict vs. Convict — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Indict and Convict
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Indict
(Law) To charge (a party) by indictment.
Convict
A convict is "a person found guilty of a crime and sentenced by a court" or "a person serving a sentence in prison". Convicts are often also known as "prisoners" or "inmates" or by the slang term "con", while a common label for former convicts, especially those recently released from prison, is "ex-con" ("ex-convict").
Indict
To accuse of wrongdoing or criticize severely
"[He] managed to indict the country's smug, liberal establishment whose lip service throttled the struggle for civil rights" (Bob Spitz).
Convict
(Law) To find or prove (someone) guilty of an offense or crime, especially by the verdict of a court
The jury convicted the defendant of manslaughter.
Indict
To accuse of wrongdoing; charge.
A book that indicts modern values
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Convict
To show or declare to be blameworthy; condemn
His remarks convicted him of a lack of sensitivity.
Indict
(legal) To make a formal accusation or indictment for a crime against (a party) by the findings of a jury, especially a grand jury.
His former manager was indicted for fraud
Convict
To make aware of one's sinfulness or guilt.
Indict
To write; to compose; to dictate; to indite.
Convict
To return a verdict of guilty in a court
"We need jurors ... who will not convict merely because they are suspicious" (Scott Turow).
Indict
To appoint publicly or by authority; to proclaim or announce.
I am told shall have no Lent indicted this year.
Convict
A person found or declared guilty of an offense or crime.
Indict
To charge with a crime, in due form of law, by the finding or presentment of a grand jury; to bring an indictment against; as, to indict a man for arson. It is the peculiar province of a grand jury to indict, as it is of a house of representatives to impeach.
Convict
A person serving a sentence of imprisonment.
Indict
Accuse formally of a crime
Convict
(transitive) To find guilty, as a result of legal proceedings, or (informal) in a moral sense.
His remarks convicted him of a lack of sensitivity.
Convict
To convince, persuade; to cause (someone) to believe in (something).
Convict
(legal) A person convicted of a crime by a judicial body.
Convict
A person deported to a penal colony.
Convict
The convict cichlid (Amatitlania nigrofasciata), also known as the zebra cichlid, a popular aquarium fish, with stripes that resemble a prison uniform.
Convict
A common name for the sheepshead (Archosargus probatocephalus), owing to its black and gray stripes.
Convict
Proved or found guilty; convicted.
Convict by flight, and rebel to all law.
Convict
A person proved guilty of a crime alleged against him; one legally convicted or sentenced to punishment for some crime.
Convict
A criminal sentenced to penal servitude.
Convict
To prove or find guilty of an offense or crime charged; to pronounce guilty, as by legal decision, or by one's conscience.
He [Baxter] . . . had been convicted by a jury.
They which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one.
Convict
To prove or show to be false; to confute; to refute.
Convict
To demonstrate by proof or evidence; to prove.
Imagining that these proofs will convict a testament, to have that in it which other men can nowhere by reading find.
Convict
To defeat; to doom to destruction.
A whole armado of convicted sail.
Convict
A person serving a sentence in a jail or prison
Convict
A person who has been convicted of a criminal offence
Convict
Find or declare guilty;
The man was convicted of fraud and sentenced
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