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Converted

adjective

1.

Spiritually reborn or converted. Synonyms: born-again, reborn.

Convert

verb

(past & past part. converted; pres. part. converting)

1.

Change from one system to another or to a new plan or policy. Synonym: change over.

2.

Change the nature, purpose, or function of something. "Convert hotels into jails" , "Convert slaves to laborers"

3.

Change religious beliefs, or adopt a religious belief.

4.

Exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category. Synonyms: change, commute, exchange. "He changed his name" , "Convert centimeters into inches" , "Convert holdings into shares"

5.

Cause to adopt a new or different faith.

6.

Score an extra point or points after touchdown by kicking the ball through the uprights or advancing the ball into the end zone.

7.

Complete successfully.

8.

Score (a spare).

9.

Make (someone) agree, understand, or realize the truth or validity of something. Synonyms: convince, win over.

10.

Exchange a penalty for a less severe one. Synonyms: commute, exchange.

11.

Change in nature, purpose, or function; undergo a chemical change.

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"Converted" Quotes from Famous Books

... the middle of Ravenna to the entrance of the harbour. The city was rendered still stronger by art than nature had formed it. As early as the fifth or sixth centuries of the Christian era the port was converted, by the retreat of the sea, into dry ground, and a grove of pines grew where the ...

— Robert Kerr's General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 18 • William Stevenson

... late in the spring of 1498 that the ships were ready for Columbus. Everything that Fonseca could do to vex and delay him was done. One of the bishop's minions, a converted Moor or Jew named Ximeno Breviesca, behaved with such outrageous insolence that on the day of sailing the Admiral's indignation, so long restrained, at last broke out, and he drove away the fellow with kicks and ...

— The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) - with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest • John Fiske

... sick, and got well again; and thought they would try a different diet, and then thought better of it; and made but a poor use of their advantages, after all. And others you will see, who have begun life as wicked crystals; and then have been impressed by alarming circumstances, and have become converted crystals, and behaved amazingly for a little while, and fallen away again, and ended, but discreditably, perhaps even in decomposition; so that one doesn't know what will become of them. And sometimes you will see deceitful ...

— The Crown of Wild Olive • John Ruskin

... the virtues of central heating, for the wind made the whole universe extraordinarily cold. Up to this I had considered central heating a stuffy subject, and I am yet not fully converted, for though there are those who say it can be controlled quite easily, I have yet to meet the superman who can ...

— Westward with the Prince of Wales • W. Douglas Newton

... the noble vaulted stone entrance with its ancient workmanship and massive proportions, seeming in its substantial build to defy the destroying hand of time. The spacious hall has been converted by the brothers into a refectory; the priest bidding them to the table on which were dried fruits from the northern, with fresh from the southern climes, English walnuts and biscuits, with a bottle of old French wine. ...

— A Heart-Song of To-day • Annie Gregg Savigny

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