Definition: 1. A person who has been found guilty of a crime and sent to prison. 2. To decide and state officially in court that sb is guilty of a crime. 3. Find or declare guilty.
Use 'convict' in a sentence:
1. They only killed him because they were afraid no jury would convict him.
2. First the convict is dragged on a hurdle (a wooden frame) to the place of execution.
3. Finally the young man revealed that he was a paroled convict returning from a distant prison.
4. As a result, the court decided it could neither convict nor acquit either the former head of military intelligence or his deputy.
5. A convict escaped from prison and shook off the policemen trying to follow him.
6. The police seized an escaping convict.
7. The escaped convict was seized outside the city.
8. You'll be facing a Federal rap for aiding and abetting an escaped convict.
9. There was insufficient evidence to convict him.
10. In 1977 he was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.
11. He was convicted of a series of offences arising from the photography at an earlier hearing.
12. Edith looked at me as if I was one of the runaway convicts of some county jail.
13. Do you have any idea how much it costs to keep a convict in prison?
