Convert
Convert verb - To persuade to change to one's religious faith.
Understand and convert are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Understand" instead a verb "Convert".
Understand
Understand verb - To form an opinion or reach a conclusion through reasoning and information.
Convert and understand are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Convert" instead a verb "Understand".
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- It doesn't help that she doesn't understand things like pollution, so she cheerfully requests that the beautiful forests and waters of the kingdom be filled with trash, and even has a factory specifically designed to convert perfectly good objects into trash.
Source: Karma Houdini / Live-Action TV -
It doesn't help that she doesn't understand things like pollution, so she cheerfully requests that the forests and waters of the kingdom be filled with trash, and even has a factory specifically designed to convert perfectly good objects into trash.
Source: Series / Arabela - Although considering the power of the Ori is very real and those who do doubt are given the choice "worship us or die", it's fairly easy to understand why they convert so readily — after all, a lot of those cultures had already been worshiping the Goa'uld as gods for millennia.
Source: Easy Evangelism
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