convince
/kənˈvɪns/ verb B1- To make someone believe, or feel sure about something, especially by using logic, argument or evidence. · I wouldn't have or do something, unless I'm convinced that it's good.· He convinced me I had talent, and persuaded me to study music.
- To persuade.
- To behave believably in a role; to make someone perceive oneself as the character being portrayed.
He/she/it convinces · Past convinced · Past participle convinced · -ing form convincing
Verb forms
- Base form
- convince
- He/she/it
- convinces
- Past
- convinced
- Past participle
- convinced
- -ing form
- convincing
From the library
“Well, well, Dandré,” said Louis XVIII., “Blacas is not yet convinced; let us proceed, therefore, to the usurper’s conversion.” The minister of police bowed.
I was expressing to my father my fears that he had wanted many things in my absence, and to convince me he emptied his purse on the table.
The assassin convinced them that any attempt to arrest him would lead to the publication of some hideous scandal.
Thereafter, feeling his life a burden from the shame and ridicule to which he was exposed, he schemed to convince all the other Foxes that being tailless was much more attractive, thus making up for his own deprivation.
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