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noun ADJ. recent | enthusiastic | reluctant | Catholic, Jewish, etc. VERB + CONVERT become | gain, make, win an attempt to gain converts to Communism PREP. ~ from One of the early popes, Clement was a convert from paganism. | ~ to a recent convert to Catholicism
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
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Phrase(s): convert someone or something (from something) ((in)to something)
to change someone or something from something into something else. • Can we convert you from a meat eater into a vegetarian? • Would you be willing to convert your oil furnace to a gas one?
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs