käännyttää — meaning in English
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English meaning
- convert verb To change something from one form, substance, or purpose into another.
- proselytize verb To try to persuade someone to adopt your religion.
Senses
käännyttää is used for these senses in English:
- convert (transitive) To induce (someone) to adopt a particular religion, faith, ideology or belief (see also sense 12).
- proselytize (ambitransitive, broadly) To advertise one’s religious beliefs; to convert (someone) to one’s own faith or religious movement or encourage them to do so.
- proselytize (by extension, ambitransitive) To advertise a non-religious belief, way of living, cause, point of view, (scientific) hypothesis, social or other position, political party, or other organization; to convince someone to join such a cause or organization or support such a position; to recruit someone.
- turn away (transitive, figuratively) To refuse to admit someone or accept something.
- turn away (transitive, figuratively) To avert or ward off the occurrence or effects of.
convert — full definition
- verb To change something from one form, substance, or purpose into another.
- verb To persuade someone to change their religion, beliefs, or opinion.
- noun A person who has adopted a new religion, belief, or cause.
proselytize — full definition
- verb To try to persuade someone to adopt your religion.
- verb To force someone to change their religion.
- verb To try to win people over to a belief, cause, lifestyle or organization that has nothing to do with religion.
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