convince

动词 v.
中文释义
英 /kənˈvɪns/    美 /kənˈvɪns/

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To make someone believe, or feel sure about something, especially by using logic, argument or evidence.
    — I wouldn't have or do something, unless I'm convinced that it's good.
  2. To persuade.
  3. To overcome, conquer, vanquish. obsolete,transitive
    — […]his two Chamberlaines / Will I with Wine, and Waſſell, ſo conuince, / That Memorie, the Warder of the Braine, / Shall be a Fume,[…]
  4. To behave believably in a role; to make someone perceive oneself as the character being portrayed.
  5. To confute; to prove wrong. obsolete,transitive
    — For hee mightily conuinced the Iewes, and that publikely, shewing by the scriptures, that Iesus was Christ.
  6. To prove guilty; to convict. obsolete,transitive
    — Which of you conuinceth mee of ſinne?

词形变化

convinces present,singular,third-person convincing participle,present convinced participle,past convinced past

词汇关系

衍生词
convinceable convincement convincer unconvince
相关词
convict conviction convincible convincingly reconvince

词源

Borrowed from Latin convincō (“to refute, prove”), from con- + vincō (“to conquer, vanquish”). Doublet of convict. Displaced native Old English oferreċċan.
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