Usually means: Persuade someone to accept belief.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. convince: Merriam-Webster.com
  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: Free Dictionary
  22. convince: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. convince: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. convince: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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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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.

Similar:
win over, turn, convert, persuade, dissuade, tell, reassure, entice, prove, compel, more...

Opposite:
dissuade, discourage, deter, dishearten, debunk

Types:
logic, emotion, appeal to authority, appeal to emotion, appeal to fear, appeal to pity, appeal to tradition, more...

Phrases:
easy to convince, attempt to convince, trying to convince, convince through argument, try to convince, more...

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Similar:
win over, turn, convert, persuade, dissuade, tell, reassure, entice, prove, compel, more...

Opposite:
dissuade, discourage, deter, dishearten, debunk

Types:
logic, emotion, appeal to authority, appeal to emotion, appeal to fear, appeal to pity, appeal to tradition, more...

Phrases:
easy to convince, attempt to convince, trying to convince, convince through argument, try to convince, to convince, hard to convince, convince otherwise, convince oneself, ability to convince, more...

Colors:
    teal,     emerald,     sapphire,     indigo,     maroon, more...



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