CONVINCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does convince mean? 

• CONVINCE (verb)
  The verb CONVINCE has 1 sense:

1. make (someone) agree, understand, or realize the truth or validity of something

  Familiarity information: CONVINCE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONVINCE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they convince    ... he / she / it convinces   
Past simple: convinced   
Past participle: convinced   
-ing form: convincing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make (someone) agree, understand, or realize the truth or validity of something

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

convert; convince; win over

Context example:

He had finally convinced several customers of the advantages of his product

Hypernyms (to "convince" is one way to...):

persuade (cause somebody to adopt a certain position, belief, or course of action; twist somebody's arm)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "convince"):

disarm (make less hostile; win over)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

They convince him to write the letter

Derivation:

convincible (being susceptible to persuasion)

 Context examples 

I told him that I thought it would be right to do so—that I was thoroughly convinced it would be, since he felt it to be right.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"To open the coffin. You shall yet be convinced."

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Far as it might have seemed, no man has ever seen very far into Wolf Larsen’s soul, or seen it at all,—of this I am convinced.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

She said nothing, but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my hand and had seen what was behind me.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The police believe that they have evidence in their possession which supplies a very convincing motive for the crime, and altogether it cannot be doubted that sensational developments will follow.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At first he could not comprehend, and then, when he did, he added convincing evidence.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Will not this manner of speaking of him, Mrs Smith, convince you that he is nothing to me?

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Your kind offices will set all right: he is the only man I ever did or could love, and I trust you will convince him of it.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Little sceptic, you shall be convinced.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“I am convinced, madam,” said Edmund, preventing Fanny, “that Sir Thomas would not like it.”

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)