Antonyms for convict
kənˈvɪkt; ˈkɒn vɪktcon·vict

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1. convictverb

   Synonyms:
   sentence, disapprove

2. convictnoun

   To find guilty

   Synonyms:
   sentence, disapprove

3. convictnoun

   A person deported to a penal colony.

   Synonyms:
   penal colonist

4. convictnoun

   Synonyms:
   con, public servant, government man, assigned servant

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. convict

   To condemn is to pass judicial sentence or render judgment or decision against. We may censure silently; we condemn ordinarily by open and formal utterance. Condemn is more final than blame or censure; a condemned criminal has had his trial; a condemned building can not stand; a condemned ship can not sail. A person is convicted when his guilt is made clearly manifest to others; in somewhat archaic use, a person is said to be convicted when guilt is brought clearly home to his own conscience (convict in this sense being allied with convince, which see under PERSUADE); in legal usage one is said to be convicted only by the verdict of a jury. In stating the penalty of an offense, the legal word sentence is now more common than condemn; as, he was sentenced to imprisonment; but it is good usage to say, he was condemned to imprisonment. To denounce is to make public or official declaration against, especially in a violent and threatening manner.

   From the pulpits in the northern States Burr was denounced as an assassin.

   Coffin Building the Nation ch. 10, p. 137. [Harper & Bros. '83.]

   To doom is to condemn solemnly and consign to evil or destruction or to predetermine to an evil destiny; an inferior race in presence of a superior is doomed to subjugation or extinction. Compare ARRAIGN; REPROVE.

   Antonyms:
   absolve, acquit, applaud, approve, exonerate, justify, pardon, pardon, praise

   Synonyms:
   blame, censure, condemn, denounce, doom, reprobate, reprove, sentence

   Preposition:
   The bandit was condemned to death for his crime.

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1. convict

   Antonyms:
   acquit, discharge

   Synonyms:
   sentence, condemn

Matched Categories

1. • Law
   • Pronounce

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1. convict, con, inmate, yard bird, yardbirdnoun

   a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison

   Antonyms:
   assoil, discharge, clear, acquit, exonerate, exculpate

   Synonyms:
   confidence game, bunco, inpatient, hustle, bunko, confidence trick, bunko game, con game, gyp, yard bird, bunco game, con, sting, inmate, yardbird, flimflam

2. convictverb

   a person who has been convicted of a criminal offense

   Antonyms:
   discharge, acquit, assoil, clear, exculpate, exonerate

   Synonyms:
   inmate, yardbird, yard bird, con

3. convictverb

   find or declare guilty

   "The man was convicted of fraud and sentenced"

   Antonyms:
   assoil, exonerate, exculpate, discharge, clear, acquit

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1. convictnoun

   Synonyms:
   felon, prisoner, criminal, culprit, malefactor

How to use convict in a sentence?

1. Charles Schumer:

   Make no mistake, a trial will be held in the United States Senate and there will be a vote to convict the president.

2. Jonathan Walton:

   You can be quoted talking about what you did, maybe even have it on video, and nothing is going to happen because your peers -- white jurors or a Republican Senate -- are not going to convict you.

3. Nguyen Quang:

   They (the police) summon them and find reasons to convict them under those very fuzzy articles of criminal law. It completely violates the law but they use it very regularly.

4. Assistant US Attorney Elizabeth Geddes:

   It is now time for Robert Kelly, Robert Kelly, to pay for Robert Kelly crimes. Convict him.

5. Michael Avenatti:

   We don't convict someone in America based on a one-sided argument and a press-conference, even when he is one of the biggest enemies of the president and his son.

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