Convict vs Rebuke - What's the difference?
convict | rebuke |
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.
A harsh criticism.
* 2012 , July 15. Richard Williams in Guardian Unlimited,
To criticise harshly; to reprove.
As verbs the difference between convict and rebuke
is that convict is to find guilty while rebuke is to criticise harshly; to reprove.As nouns the difference between convict and rebuke
is that convict is a person convicted of a crime by a judicial body while rebuke is a harsh criticism.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)rebuke
English
Noun
(en noun)Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track
- There was the sternness of an old-fashioned Tour patron in his rebuke to the young Frenchman Pierre Rolland, the only one to ride away from the peloton and seize the opportunity for a lone attack before being absorbed back into the bunch, where he was received with coolness.