Convict vs Condemned - What's the difference?
convict | condemned |
To find guilty
# as a result of legal proceedings, about of a crime
# informally, notably in a moral sense; said about both perpetrator and act.
(legal) A person convicted of a crime by a judicial body.
A person deported to a penal colony.
A common name for the sheepshead (Archosargus probatocephalus), owing to its black and stripes.
Having received a curse to be doomed to suffer eternally.
Having been sharply scolded.
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, date=December 19
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, title=Kim Jong-il obituary
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Adjudged or sentenced to punishment, destruction, or confiscation.
(of a building) Officially marked uninhabitable.
A person sentenced to death.
(condemn)
As verbs the difference between convict and condemned
is that convict is to find guilty while condemned is past tense of condemn.As nouns the difference between convict and condemned
is that convict is a person convicted of a crime by a judicial body while condemned is a person sentenced to death.As an adjective condemned is
having received a curse to be doomed to suffer eternally.convict
English
Verb
(en verb)Synonyms
* (legal crime) sentence * (informal) disapproveNoun
(wikipedia convict) (en noun)Synonyms
* (person convicted of crime) assigned servant, con, government man, public servant * (person deported to a penal colony) penal colonistDerived terms
* con (synonym)condemned
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Adjective
(-)citation, page= , passage=Kim Jong-il, who has died aged 69, was the general secretary of the Workers party of Korea, and head of the military in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). He was one of the most reclusive and widely condemned national leaders of the late 20th and early 21st century, leaving his country diplomatically isolated, economically broken and divided from South Korea.}}