convict
/kənˈvɪkt/ verb C1- To find guilty, as a result of legal proceedings, or (informal) in a moral sense. · He was a convicted felon.· His remarks convicted him of a lack of sensitivity.
- To convince, persuade; to cause (someone) to believe in (something).
He/she/it convicts · Past convicted · Past participle convicted · -ing form convicting
Verb forms
- Base form
- convict
- He/she/it
- convicts
- Past
- convicted
- Past participle
- convicted
- -ing form
- convicting
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“But the Professor was fenced round with safeguards so cunningly devised that, do what I would, it seemed impossible to get evidence which would convict in a court of law.
Tell Inspector Patterson that the papers which he needs to convict the gang are in pigeonhole M., done up in a blue envelope and inscribed ‘Moriarty.’ I made every disposition of my property before leaving England, and handed it to my brother Mycroft.
I proceed, then, from the morning which followed our abortive chase of the convict and our other strange experiences upon the moor.
Then fourteen miles away the great convict prison of Princetown.
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