convert
verb
• change the form, character, or function of something.
• "modernization has converted the country from a primitive society to a near-industrial one"
Similar:
change,
turn,
transform,
metamorphose,
transfigure,
transmute,
translate,
transmogrify,
permute,
adapt,
rework,
recast,
reshape,
refashion,
remodel,
remould,
rehash,
• change one's religious faith or other belief.
• "at sixteen he converted to Catholicism"
• score from (a penalty kick, pass, or other opportunity) in a sport or game.
• "Faulkner gave away a penalty corner which was converted by Saeed Anjum"
convert
noun
• a person who has been persuaded to change their religious faith or other belief.
• "he is a recent convert to the Church"
Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘turn round, send in a different direction’): from Old French convertir, based on Latin convertere ‘turn about’, from con- ‘altogether’ + vertere ‘turn’.
