Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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“convicted” is a form of

convict

UK /ˈkɒnvɪkt/ · US /ˈkɑnvɪkt/ verb, noun

Forms convicts convicting convicted

  1. verb (transitive, law) To find guilty, as a result of legal proceedings, or (informal) in a moral sense. “He was a convicted felon.”
  2. verb (chiefly religion, ethics) To convince, persuade; to cause (someone) to believe in (something).
  3. noun (law) A person convicted of a crime by a judicial body.
  4. noun A person deported to a penal colony.
  5. noun The convict cichlid (Amatitlania nigrofasciata), also known as the zebra cichlid, a popular aquarium fish, with stripes that resemble a prison uniform.
  6. noun A common name for the sheepshead (Archosargus probatocephalus), owing to its black and gray stripes.

Synonyms

sentence disapprove bring round convince win over draw gain over persuade pimp prevail upon procure push suade talk around talk over wash with adjudge condemn damn deem con inmate yard bird yardbird

Antonyms

acquit

Etymology

From Middle English convicten, from Anglo-Norman convicter, from Latin convictus, the past participle of convincō (“to convict”). Doublet of convince. Displaced native Old English forwyrċan (“to convict, condemn”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. Proved or found guilty; convicted. [Obs.] Shak.
  2. noun A person proved guilty of a crime alleged against him; one legally convicted or sentenced to punishment for some crime.
  3. noun A criminal sentenced to penal servitude.
  4. verb To prove or find guilty of an offense or crime charged; to pronounce guilty, as by legal decision, or by one's conscience.

Etymology [L. convictus, p.p. of convincere to convict, prove. See Convice.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “convict”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “convict” (best matches first).