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Convict vs Repay - What's the difference?

convict | repay |

As verbs the difference between convict and repay

is that convict is to find guilty while repay is to pay back.

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

    Related terms

    * conviction

    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)

    repay

    English

    Verb

  • To pay back.
    • I finally repaid my student loans, just before sending my kids to college.

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