Meanings (ES + gloss)
converso • neófito
A person who has converted to a religion.
They were all converts to Islam.
While still in this relationship, Greene, a convert to Roman Catholicism at 23, was asked to be godfather to Catherine Walston, a 30-year-old married woman, at her own conversion.
confeso • converso • neófito
A person who is now in favour of something that they previously opposed or disliked.
I never really liked broccoli before, but now that I've tasted it the way you cook it, I'm a convert!
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Meanings (ES + gloss)
convertir
To transform or change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product.
1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth if the whole atmosphere were converted into water
A kettle converts water into steam.
convertir
To change (something) from one use, function, or purpose to another.
And the deff's further sayen that after the said b'gayn the said lambert compounded wt the said lychefeld ffor the moytie of the said Tymber stone glasse yren and tyle aforsaid by…
He converted his garden into a tennis court.
convertir
To induce (someone) to adopt a particular religion, faith, ideology or belief (see also sense 12).
No attempt was made to convert the Moslems.
They converted her to Roman Catholicism on her deathbed.
convertir
To express (a quantity) in alternative units.
convertir
To undergo a conversion of religion, faith or belief (see also sense 3).
The notion of blood purity was first elaborated in Europe, where it was used to separate Old Christians from Spain’s New Christians—women and men of Jewish and Muslim origin whose…
We've converted to Methodism.
convertir
To become converted.
The chair converts into a bed.
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