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[ kuh n-vur -tid ] SHOW IPA
/ kənˈvɜr tɪd / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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adjective noting a specified type of person who has been converted from the religion, beliefs, or attitudes characteristic of that type: a converted Christian; a converted thief.
noting anything, formerly of the type specified, that has been converted to something else: His yacht is a converted destroyer escort.
Origin of converted First recorded in 1585–95; convert1 + -ed2
OTHER WORDS FROM converted qua·si-con·vert·ed, adjective un·con·vert·ed, adjective Words nearby converted conversion table, conversive heat, conversus, convert, convertase, converted , converted rice, converted steel, converter, converter reactor, convertible
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Example sentences from the Web for converted Keopuolani converted on her deathbed in 1823, instructing her son Kamehameha II to protect the missionaries.
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When Vreeland first converted to Buddhism, the world he joined was completely sealed.
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Importantly, as part of the interim plan, Iran has diluted or converted its stockpile of 20 percent enriched uranium.
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Hauchard converted to Islam in high school at 17, and is said to have suddenly begun wearing a beard and djellaba.
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Her hyperrealist paintings are so powerful that they converted her atheist parents to Christians.
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He was the son of a weaver, himself a shoemaker, and was "converted " before the age of 20.
Complete Prose Works | Walt Whitman
The room in which the Emperor died is sealed and walled up, and the palace is now converted into a school of engineers.
A Journey in Russia in 1858 | Robert Heywood
By this any free sulphur would be converted into a soluble sulphate of Potassium.
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Puritanism seems to suggest that those who have been “converted ” are actually perfect.
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Occasionally this neck of land has been broken through or overflowed, and the peninsula has then been converted into an island.
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Words related to converted transformed, indoctrinated, changed, reformed, born-again