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as in to influence
to persuade to change to one's religious faith young missionaries who go door-to-door trying to convert people

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noun

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How is the word convert different from other verbs like it?

Some common synonyms of convert are metamorphose, transfigure, transform, transmogrify, and transmute. While all these words mean "to change a thing into a different thing," convert implies a change fitting something for a new or different use or function.

converted the study into a nursery

When is it sensible to use metamorphose instead of convert?

The meanings of metamorphose and convert largely overlap; however, metamorphose suggests an abrupt or startling change induced by or as if by magic or a supernatural power.

awkward girls metamorphosed into graceful ballerinas

In what contexts can transfigure take the place of convert?

The words transfigure and convert are synonyms, but do differ in nuance. Specifically, transfigure implies a change that exalts or glorifies.

joy transfigured her face

When can transform be used instead of convert?

While the synonyms transform and convert are close in meaning, transform implies a major change in form, nature, or function.

transformed a small company into a corporate giant

When could transmogrify be used to replace convert?

The synonyms transmogrify and convert are sometimes interchangeable, but transmogrify suggests a strange or preposterous metamorphosis.

a story in which a frog is transmogrified into a prince

When would transmute be a good substitute for convert?

While in some cases nearly identical to convert, transmute implies transforming into a higher element or thing.

attempted to transmute lead into gold

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of convert
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Then, in 1982, a group of investors bought a total of six Ross department stores and converted them to the Ross Dress For Less off-price format, Ross Stores Inc. said on its website. Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado, Sacbee.com, 24 Apr. 2025 These specialized cells are responsible for detecting sound vibrations, converting them into nerve signals, and sending those signals to the brain for interpretation. Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Apr. 2025
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Other refugees at a shelter beat him, believing his status as a Christian convert might draw negative attention to them. Ryan Oehrli, Charlotte Observer, 14 Mar. 2025 Join 4 others in the comments View Comments President Trump himself is a recent convert to the crypto world. Allison Morrow, CNN, 13 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for convert
Recent Examples of Synonyms for convert
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  • Correlation With Peer Earnings Peer performance can sometimes influence a stock’s post-earnings reaction; pricing effects may even start before the announcement.
    Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 24 Apr. 2025
  • Researchers have identified 17 modifiable factors—things within your control—that can influence your risk of developing three major brain diseases: stroke, dementia, and late-life depression.
    Cathy Cassata, Health, 24 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Making meaningful connections outside the bounds of your phone can help ground you to reality, and having healthy, in-person relationships with women is key to transforming your mindset away from frustration and blame to ownership and confidence.
    Sam Woodward, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2025
  • First up is a three-hour long episode in which Blippi transforms a playground into an imaginative airplane adventure.
    Annabelle Canela, Parents, 18 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Another factor that might hamper Chelsea’s attempts to persuade Rak-Sakyi to stay is what has happened to his brother, Jesurun.
    Simon Johnson, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2025
  • The administration is expected to return to the Supreme Court quickly in an effort to persuade the justices to lift their temporary order.
    CBS News, CBS News, 19 Apr. 2025
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  • Attackers could seize on the pattern by identifying nonexistent packages that are repeatedly hallucinated.
    Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Officials seized less than 50 pounds of fentanyl along the U.S. northern border in the 2024 fiscal year, according to the AP, citing U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) data.
    Mohammed Soliman, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Manning, the former No. 1 recruit, grandson of Archie Manning and nephew of Peyton and Eli Manning, will be the full-time starter for Texas for the first time this season.
    Sam Khan Jr., New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Create Your Strategic Framework AI-Skilled Human: Proactively define the skills and characteristics your employees need now and five years from now, and then develop and recruit based on this.
    Kirk W. McLaren, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • But after making an initial splash in 2009 thanks to high-profile adherents like marathon star Paula Radcliffe, the first wave of high-quality studies supported the idea that beet juice really does improve endurance.
    Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 19 Apr. 2025
  • In some contexts, adherents to older intellectual traditions pushed back, especially in Poland, where resistance slowed though could not prevent the imposition of ideological control.
    Iveta Silova, The Conversation, 9 Apr. 2025
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  • And Justice Elena Kagan pointed out that some religions proselytize and some don’t.
    Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Scherzer has been proselytizing his argument for several years, as M.L.B. has continued to study the issue with what appears to be more intellectual curiosity than urgency.
    Bruce Schoenfeld Robert Fass Tanya Pérez Brian St. Pierre, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
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  • Scammers convince you to take cash to a bitcoin ATM Her story highlights one huge red flag that consumers must watch out for these days — how scammers are convincing you to take cash to a crypto ATM at the local party store, gas station or grocery.
    Susan Tompor, USA Today, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Behind the Southern delegates’ suspicion was a kind of post-October 7th trauma: John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry, in 1859, had convinced the South that the Black population was poised to rise up in bloody rebellion if given the chance.
    Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2025

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