Clues for the word "CONVERT"
We've had 8 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 12 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on August 05, 2026.
Definition of convert
- v. t. - To cause to turn; to turn.
- v. t. - To change or turn from one state or condition to another; to alter in form, substance, or quality; to transform; to transmute; as, to convert water into ice.
- v. t. - To change or turn from one belief or course to another, as from one religion to another or from one party or sect to another.
- v. t. - To produce the spiritual change called conversion in (any one); to turn from a bad life to a good one; to change the heart and moral character of (any one) from the controlling power of sin to that of holiness.
- v. t. - To apply to any use by a diversion from the proper or intended use; to appropriate dishonestly or illegally.
- v. t. - To exchange for some specified equivalent; as, to convert goods into money.
- v. t. - To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second.
- v. t. - To turn into another language; to translate.
- v. i. - To be turned or changed in character or direction; to undergo a change, physically or morally.
- n. - A person who is converted from one opinion or practice to another; a person who is won over to, or heartily embraces, a creed, religious system, or party, in which he has not previously believed; especially, one who turns from the controlling power of sin to that of holiness, or from unbelief to Christianity.
- n. - A lay friar or brother, permitted to enter a monastery for the service of the house, but without orders, and not allowed to sing in the choir.
Referring Clues
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - August 05, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 30, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - June 23, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - June 14, 2017
- Netword - August 14, 2016
- Evening Standard Quick - April 06, 2016
- Guardian Quick - October 03, 2015
- Evening Standard Quick - July 31, 2015
- Guardian Everyman - April 26, 2015
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - June 13, 2014
- Guardian Cryptic - August 16, 2011
- Guardian Quick - July 03, 2008