convict

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con·vict1 /kənˈvɪkt/ ●○○ verb [transitive]  SCTGUILTYto prove or officially announce that someone is guilty of a crime after a trial in a law court 证明[判定]…有罪 OPP acquitconvict somebody of something She was convicted of shoplifting. 她被判犯有偷窃商店货物罪。convict somebody on something He was convicted on fraud charges. 他被判犯有欺诈罪。 a convicted murderer 已定罪的谋杀犯→ See Verb table

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convict• The couple were convicted in December.• He was never convicted of anything in this country.• Instead of being convicted of first-degree murder, Mitchell got six years for voluntary manslaughter.• 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.• Officials said he had been at San Quentin since June of this year after being convicted on murder charges.• 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

con·vict2 /ˈkɒnvɪkt $ ˈkɑːn-/ noun [countable]  SCJsomeone who has been proved to be guilty of a crime and sent to prison 已决犯；囚犯 an escaped convict 越狱犯

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convict• 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

con·vict1 verbcon·vict2 nounChineseSyllable  

announce Corpus or someone that to prove officially

convict

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con‧vict¹ /kənˈvɪkt/ verb [transitive]to prove or officially announce that someone is guilty of a crime after a trial in a law court
   OPP  acquit
    convict somebody of something
    She was convicted of shoplifting.
    convict somebody on something
    He was convicted on fraud charges.
    a convicted murderer

II

con‧vict² /ˈkɒnvɪkt $ ˈkɑːn-/ noun [countable]
someone who has been proved to be guilty of a crime and sent to prison:
    an escaped convict
     

THESAURUS

   ▪ prisoner someone who is kept in a prison as a punishment for a crime, or while they are waiting for their trial: Prisoners may be locked in their cells for twenty-two hours a day. | a prisoner serving a life sentence for murder
   ▪ convict especially written someone who has been found guilty of a crime and sent to a prison. Convict is used especially about someone who is sent to prison for a long time. It is more commonly used in historical descriptions, or in the phrase an escaped convict: The convicts were sent from England to Australia. | Police were hunting for an escaped convict. | Low-risk convicts help to fight forest fires and clean up public lands.
   ▪ inmate someone who is kept in a prison or a mental hospital: Some inmates are allowed to have special privileges. | He was described by a fellow inmate as a quiet man.
   ▪ captive especially literary someone who is kept somewhere and not allowed to go free, especially in a war or fighting. Captive is a rather formal word which is used especially in literature: Their objective was to disarm the enemy and release the captives. | She was held captive (=kept as a prisoner) in the jungle for over three years.
   ▪ prisoner of war a soldier, member of the navy etc who is caught by the enemy during a war and kept in the enemy’s country: My grandad was a prisoner of war in Germany. | They agreed to release two Iranian prisoners of war.
   ▪ hostage someone who is kept somewhere as a prisoner, in order to force people to agree to do something, for example in order to get money or to achive a political aim: Diplomats are continuing their efforts to secure the release of the hostages. | The US hostages were held in Tehran for over a year.
   ▪ detainee/internee someone who is kept in a prison, usually because of their political views and often without a trial: In some cases, political detainees have been beaten or mistreated. | 23,531 people passed through the camps between 1944 and 1962, including 14,647 political internees. | the detainees at Guantanamo Bay