Indict vs. Convict

Indictverb

To accuse of wrongdoing; charge.

Indictverb

(legal) To make a formal accusation or indictment for a crime against (a party) by the findings of a jury, especially a grand jury.

Indictverb

To write; to compose; to dictate; to indite.

Indictverb

To appoint publicly or by authority; to proclaim or announce.

Indictverb

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.

Indictverb

accuse formally of a crime

Convictverb

(transitive) to find guilty

Convictverb

as a result of legal proceedings, of a crime, of charges, on charges of something

Convictverb

informally, notably in a moral sense; said about both perpetrator and act

Convictverb

(esp. religious) to convince, persuade; to cause (someone) to believe in (something)

Convictnoun

(legal) A person convicted of a crime by a judicial body.

Convictnoun

A person deported to a penal colony.

Convictnoun

The convict cichlid (Amatitlania nigrofasciata), also known as the zebra cichlid, a popular aquarium fish, with stripes that resemble a prison uniform.

Convictnoun

A common name for the sheepshead (Archosargus probatocephalus), owing to its black and gray stripes.

Convict

Proved or found guilty; convicted.

Convictnoun

A person proved guilty of a crime alleged against him; one legally convicted or sentenced to punishment for some crime.

Convictnoun

A criminal sentenced to penal servitude.

Convictverb

To prove or find guilty of an offense or crime charged; to pronounce guilty, as by legal decision, or by one's conscience.

Convictverb

To prove or show to be false; to confute; to refute.

Convictverb

To demonstrate by proof or evidence; to prove.

Convictverb

To defeat; to doom to destruction.

Convictnoun

a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison

Convictnoun

a person who has been convicted of a criminal offence

Convictverb

find or declare guilty;

Convict

A convict is or . Convicts are often also known as or or by the slang term , while a common label for former convicts, especially those recently released from prison, is ().