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Convict vs Exonerate - What's the difference?

convict | exonerate |

In lang=en terms the difference between convict and exonerate

is that convict is to find guilty while exonerate is to free from accusation or blame.

As verbs the difference between convict and exonerate

is that convict is to find guilty while exonerate is to relieve (someone or something) of a load; to unburden (a load).

As a noun convict

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

convict

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • 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.
  • Synonyms

    * (legal crime) sentence * (informal) disapprove

    Noun

    (wikipedia convict) (en noun)
  • (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.
  • Synonyms

    * (person convicted of crime) assigned servant, con, government man, public servant * (person deported to a penal colony) penal colonist

    Derived terms

    * con (synonym)

    exonerate

    English

    Verb

    (exonerat)
  • To relieve (someone or something) of a load; to unburden (a load).
  • (obsolete, reflexive) Of a body of water, to discharge (oneself), empty oneself.
  • *, II.ii.3:
  • I would examine the Caspian Sea, and see where and how it exonerates itself, after it hath taken in Volga, Iaxartes, Oxus, and those great rivers; at the mouth of Obi, or where?
  • To free from an obligation, responsibility or task.
  • To free from accusation or blame.
  • Synonyms

    * (to free from accusation ) acquit English transitive verbs ----