Indicted vs Convicted - What's the difference?
indicted | convicted |
(indict)
To accuse of wrongdoing; charge.
(legal) To make a formal accusation or indictment for a crime against (a party) by the findings of a jury, especially a grand jury.
(convict)
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.
As verbs the difference between indicted and convicted
is that indicted is past tense of indict while convicted is past tense of convict.indicted
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(head)indict
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(en verb)- a book that indicts modern values
- his former manager was indicted for fraud