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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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... means only in such cases that field sports prove a great moral safety-valve, scattering morbid tastes and giving harmless and healthy vent to turns of character or feeling which might very easily be converted into vice. Among the influences that form the character of the upper classes of Englishmen they have a great part, and in spite of the exaggerations and extravagances that often accompany them, few good observers will doubt that they have an ...

— The Map of Life - Conduct and Character • William Edward Hartpole Lecky

... their ears, and a fleet of Iroquois canoes bore down upon them from adjacent islands, with a terrific discharge of musketry. The Hurons for the greater part leaped ashore and fled. Jogues sprang into the bulrushes and could have got away. When he saw some of the converted Indians in the hands of their enemies, he determined to share their fate, came out from his hiding-place, and gave himself up. Goupil {156} was taken prisoner. Couture had got away, but the thought of the fate that probably awaited Jogues decided him to go back and cast in his lot with him. ...

— French Pathfinders in North America • William Henry Johnson

... "This people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their 350:21 eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should ...

— Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures • Mary Baker Eddy

... by a fence containing a small strip of land for the purpose of raising early summer vegetables. Here now is erected the splendid dwelling house of one of the wealthiest citizens of the village, and the garden is converted into front yard, building spot and back yard, containing all the usual necessary appendages to a dwelling place, so that here all traces of former days have passed from the spot, and only live inscribed upon the retentive tablet of Memory. On the east end was ...

— Withered Leaves from Memory's Garland • Abigail Stanley Hanna

... of the Solar System's criminals. He would be forced to work under the flaming whip-lashes of a Sun that hurled such intense radiations that mere spacesuits were no protection at all. The workers on the Vulcan Fleet ships wore suits that were in reality photo-cells which converted the deadly radiations into electric power. For electric power can be disposed of ...

— Empire • Clifford Donald Simak

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