proved or found guilty; convicted.-a person proved guilty of a crime alleged against him; one legally convicted or sentenced to punishment for some crime.-a criminal sentenced to penal servitude.-to prove or find guilty of an offense or crime charged; to pronounce guilty, as by legal decision, or by one's conscience.-to prove or show to be false; to confute; to refute.-to demonstrate by proof or evidence; to prove.-to defeat; to doom to destruction.