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Indicted vs Convicted - What's the difference?

indicted | convicted |

As verbs the difference between indicted and convicted

is that indicted is past tense of indict while convicted is past tense of convict.

indicted

English

Verb

(head)
  • (indict)

  • indict

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To accuse of wrongdoing; charge.
  • a book that indicts modern values
  • (legal) To make a formal accusation or indictment for a crime against (a party) by the findings of a jury, especially a grand jury.
  • his former manager was indicted for fraud

    See also

    * indite

    convicted

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (convict)

  • 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)