Usually means: Persuade someone to accept belief.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. convince: Merriam-Webster
  2. convince: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. convince: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. convince: Collins English Dictionary
  5. convince: Vocabulary.com
  6. Convince, convince: Wordnik
  7. convince: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. convince: Wiktionary
  9. convince: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. convince: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. convince: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. CONVINCE: Dictionary.com
  13. convince: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. convince: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Convince: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Convince: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. convince: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. convince: Rhymezone
  19. convince: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. convince: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. convince: FreeDictionary.org
  22. convince: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. convince: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. convince: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. convince: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. convince: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. convince: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. CONVINCE: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. convince: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To make someone believe, or feel sure about something, especially by using logic, argument or evidence.
verb:  To persuade.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To overcome, conquer, vanquish.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To confute; to prove wrong.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To prove guilty; to convict.

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