especially : to exercise the right of conversion by exchanging (preferred shares or bonds) for common stock 2 : to appropriate (another's property) by conversion the bailee converted the goods to his own …

CONVERTED definition: 1. having changed in form or character, or been made suitable for a different use: 2. having…. Learn more.

CONVERTED definition: noting a specified type of person who has been converted from the religion, beliefs, or attitudes characteristic of that type. See examples of converted used in a sentence.

convert (from something) to something I've converted to organic food. convert somebody (from something) (to something) I didn't use to like opera but my husband has converted me.

1. To undergo a conversion: We converted to Islam several years ago. 2. To be converted: a sofa that converts into a bed; arms factories converting to peacetime production.

to turn to another or a particular use or purpose; divert from the original or intended use: They converted the study into a nursery for the baby. to modify (something) so as to serve a different function: to …

A two-bedroom home in a converted manor house with communal grounds that include lawns and woodland.

The missionaries converted the native people to Christianity. They tried to convert us to their way of thinking.

• We've converted the basement to give the children more room to play. • The berries are then warmed over slowly burning peat fires until they sprout, a development that converts their starches into sugars.

Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping …